Prestigious

Social climbs are never vestigial;
ladders contain 
more than single steps. 

The high require below
for definition,
otherwise stacks dissolve
to pixels randomly blurred.

Hum, nature, the rank song --
worms, moles, wolves, magpies.
In ascending.

Until floor maps take hold,
North also indicates
greater latitude.

Perhaps prestige follows fate,
a destiny for tops. Or maybe 
downers earn their dirt, like 
crops digging for water.

Roots and leaves and trunks and flowers
each follow their script
but apples play the founding role
in sunken garden myth.