Crooked It Was

Is the night in vogue
or in vague
or have we perhaps
inveighed in 
the midst of
a fifth column
a sifted problem
slicing through 
the ample rows
of ambergris 
of least most grain
against which
our backs drop
to prove the 
geometers 
were right enough
to orthodontist
to pay to make crooked
all that could have remained
the type of crooked it was.