OF ALL THE SEASONS THAT GRASP THE EVOLVING EARTH
THAT INFLICT THEMSELVES
UPON
THE REVOLVING SPHERE AN OVERARCHING BLUE THAT FLOATS IN SPACE
IF ONE WERE ONE
ARGUABLY IT WOULD MOST PROBABLY PLAUSIBLY BE:
AUTUMN
DISCHARGED FROM MONSTROUS CANOPIES
ABUNDANTLY GOLDEN
FOR THERE IS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE
ABUNDANTLY SAFFRON
THAT EXHIBIT DEATH AND DYING
ABUNDANTLY BLOODY
THE EXCREMENT OF BEING
QUITE AS CLEARLY
ONE SAW
FROM ALL THE TREES THAT COULD HAVE BEEN SEEN
A WEEPING WILLOW
BRANCH BY BRANCH
HANGING THEMSELVES FEROCIOUSLY LOW
SWEEPING CARPETS OF CONCRETE AND GRASS
UPON WHICH FOOTPRINTS MAY BE EMBEDDED
IF NOT RENDERED RELENTLESSLY IRRELEVANT
NEVERTHELESS EVOKES THE RECOLLECTION OF A ONCE-WAS ACCOMPLICE
WITH A FACE ETERNALLY
FRAUGHT BY THE POMPOUS FATIGUE
OF DISEASED PROPORTIONS
AN EARTHLY HOST WHEREFROM SENSATIONS OOZE
CONJURES THEREBY THE DISTINCTION OF A MASTER
WHOSE WORKS ARE MUSEUM HUNG
WITHIN AN ORCHESTRA
OF ALL THE INSTRUMENTS
BESIDES, PERHAPS, A HARMONICA
NOTHING WAILS QUITE AS VIOLENTLY AS A VIOLIN
WHOSE DURABLE LIMBS WHICHEVER INDIFFERENT OR UNYIELDING
IRREGARDLESS THEREIN ATTENTIVE EARS
INVOLUNTARY OR OTHERWISE
SHALL BICKER INTENSELY
UNTIL A QUARREL ARISES
WHAT SPECIFIC OCCASION WARRANTS A VIOLIN
THAT ALL OCCASIONS SHOULD NOT
HOW COME IT HAS NEVER BEEN DISCLOSED
MUSIC IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
SCENERY
MUSIC IS ITS OWN SCENERY
OF ALL THEIR VARIETY
AN ASSORTMENT
OF FLOWERS – NOT TO BE MISTAKEN FOR WEEDS – IS NEVER RANDOM
IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES
DO FLOWERS RESENT
BEING UPROOTED
THEN ALLOTTED
IN INSUFFERABLE ORIENTATIONS
WITHIN AUTOCRATIC PRESCRIPTIONS
WEDGED ABOUT
TO SUCH EXTREMES
THAT THEY CRINGE IN AGONY
THAT THIS WILTING – OF NATURE’S DECAY – AT THE HANDS OF MAN
IS INDICATIVE OF BUT
MORTALITY’S CATASTROPHE
