Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Pre-Enlightenment Valentine

The earth is like an afterthought
reflective but unselfconscious
of an originally much larger project
meant to summarize in formulas
and symbols much like a memory
the most personal and intimate
details encoded in tree bark
and moss really a lot of moss
growing over the cities of self-
regard built to serve and preserve
our essential preference for ourselves
each in our own individual way
like a storage locker abandoned
by an untraceable owner

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