A girth of permanence befalls the sullen
As beams persistent shine through bars
Climbers, spotted-skewed into
Chambers coerced, drift to view
An ancestry unnerves
As tomes shift apart, drifting still whilst still in hand
Sowing promiscuity with their implied art,
Atop of chiseled monuments, dull & grey-
Unable to purvey, the template of messaging, clearly on display
While sediment filches prominence,
From a once heraldic crest,
Weeds sprout, coveting wetness from thresholds lost, bereft
A gradation, burnt engrained
Engulfs the masquerader
Pinching solemnities close, into and about,
In a fraction’s grasp of logic, sensibilities curtail,
Divorcing gifted identity, the mirage has been espoused
Alert to one’s own sparseness
Mismanaged ebbs contort the face
A dalliance of ovation, in frivolities shape and sound
Symbols linger, coagulate upon
A dusty acreage vinaigrette’s prepackaged tarmac, so easily the spawn
Weathered kin unto histories
Within Sonoma’s mystery
Where-out the laughter’s drought
Ruffled dragonfly
Too young to know any better
Soon as wings fret to fringe
Ephemeral splotches parse
A brief occupation of epiphany:
The crest is first worn inside out
