abstruse

[sweetwater]

the columns of commerce ascended
into a plastic evening in
a litany of choice to succeed
what made manifest
the desire to outwrest a complacent agenda
and proclaim a destiny

false witness to the abysmal lord
strange land to the traveler in sandals
where
happiness seemed wasted in a heart string of pearls
and
fragrant came the morning
in the absence of song and psalms

and the unimagined victory
of toy soldiers and flags

perplexing in the often but seen
descended
into flames the ghost
came and died

giant within the last phrase of day
and the absence of emotion
metaphor

and desire