the indiscriminant dry hand of time

11/30/05

there really is no reason for this, the steel switch that kills,
the evil thing that spills
black ink on the sun –
it doth make me still

though beside me that airy turbine still does turn and blows
in abandon my lesser dreams of the night
a bit further just in spite
down a darkened alley gray and tight in the
eyes of a child like me, wrapped in fright
amongst the cloth of what we sense tonight,
the feather touch of fingers on flaccid cotton skin
like the cold and dry breath of the way stations
I visit and pay homage to
at the end of these icy last days