IN THE RESPITE
OF THE AGES
As in putting a flag at half-staff : there is
no meaning worth the salt of such an
encumbrance. Meanings, like movies,
elide and change their social patter.
In trying to read our cuneiform shadows,
we mistake the message for the cut.
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Outside my downtown window, two
men are sweeping the expanse before
them : brooms, a pail, some water, and
the bags with which to hold the trash.
They keep their heads down, intent
on cleaning this world.
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