Linguistic representations
may be seen
to be seen.
To be believed,
the vultures must
culture the fermentable
beasts and sour against
the cream of the stoppage.
Work alights upon the parapet,
wondering what made this cathedral
a scoundrel-hovel, a glacier scraping
the lakes out from under the feet of
the thirsty, bleeding a martyr for
a thousand thousand tears.
Lay brick and play wick
against candle, wax against
ear, plurality against singularity;
the concentration of tower
flowers into a deconstruction
of cowering, empowering,
valedictory valleys,
flowing with seepage,
creeping with beepers,
bouncing off the calls
that cannot make or take,
cannot break or bake,
cannot book a cookie
on a sheet or a pan or a spine
to make peaceful preposition
with the war of stall against fall.
Roman Ryan 