Vernacular Formalities
Turtle, at home in his politics
loves the intimacy of shells,
looks slightly to the Right
and the right of rites,
intensely inspects the Left
and what’s left ---
long, lonely contemplation
in his closet ---prayer.
A shifting vowel and accent
will have us prey
upon the lower forms of life:
subject, object, the verb in between –
asymmetry slanting as a star
or Turtle imploding its grammar,
squinting his camera to see
how high the moon, how low the sun,
ascertaining that soon, so very soon
a dread-dimensioned world’s undone.
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