BEGGAR RUMINATION

Beggar rumination. Or think

“attenuated embers of famished fires”

replicating primed summers

empurpled with arson smoke.

Rewind. Re wind,

unfunneling its launch lines

inner gravure

neither void nor disclosure.

Exeunt, everyone.

Don’t you hear the director?

Click your marks,

heels, hooves, halberds,

oscillations, oblate spheres.

If the stage quakes, just

relate it. Smite the

scene.