essential corrections
don't scare easily
your run of the mill
isolationist
quiet strength
bores all the marks
of a violinist with
bleeding fingers
imagine such beauty
being plucked
from so much pain
a provocative jungle
with so few real trees
what is that
but mere
uses of enchantment
beaten down
by some too harsh
morning light
spilling across
some desolate hamlet
denouncing
such existence
of calm life
as too much sculpture
and works on paper
after all
literature is but
history
brought back to life
so for the moment
to live again
for the latest batch
of those
trying to learn from it.............
(Feb. 22, 2008 502am)