striking back at the utterly stricken

shaking bathos
down the aisle to r'lyeh
what comment the ant
arctic
seamus blake
green thumb green toe
green orchestra
and where blue sky
wrap around caryatid

do players
flow down stairs
from the fount in the shade
what bliss is shape
in the breath bubble of being
this prayer sugar
would notice only
surface tensions
the latex dream animal
thinks skin is math
and light its own ovum
an umbrella for the war
do players
rise and hover
filled with emotion

shaking bathos down
shaking out their races
for their coinings
what comment the ant
antic
what art the radiance
when the sun must
setting

real down hole
and wind
plus
engine face
and leaf impetus

broken tool too
is wonder

cool waterspout
and all mule
hermit buildings