Poetry
Reckoning
Admission here of my endeavor to dissemble a story
about the victors my quarter moon and crossbar my
factsheet glossy chevron I am enabled in place
even if I was never from Hamburg or Paris never
in Athens no matter how I obliterate my evolving
thoughts concentric with the fragrances of clean
and nearness to atrocity a measurement of days
and progress in terms I too obtain in amazement
sometime far sometime so in the urban sequence
inalienable begetting ever of the million chemical
components the color of asphalt tawny chlorophyll
grizzle I confess I suspect I unfriend a shy electorate
with something notable like evidence or argument
something noble for the influx of learning my lesson
in connection to belief and what teacher tells me
with no mind to correction of method why forfeit
the cruelty of forms I accept I concede I allow I
discomfort or are we are adjourned?—o hear ye
therefore ghost and guest in graphite timely untimely