Perception at the Center

      Chaos is eccentric else, among the green 
      Habiliments of this disease, 
      This earth, this atmosphere 
      We sicken of and breathe. The arrant mind 
5     Ticks like a cockvane in a white sky. 
      Blackly circles the tragic thought of death 
      Around an empty farm: the false, shadow-sharp
      Concern that it invented. Past tipped buckets 
      And abandoned calves, lonely for their mothers, 
10     
      Sick-eyed mermaids maunder in their scales, 
      Electric after 
      A crumpled pail 
       
15    Of the pure, chiaroscuro myth.

 

From the collection "The Cabana at the Equator"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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