I

Autumn, and hibernating babes,
In dormant, in bundles, lie for and against timelessness.
Sincere, books-yet, in fantasy jettisoned with
Standards’ un-represent in passing age of impoverishment,
That Duty’s tired soul reinvent, and mark in tones rapid, meant
To project asinintion her cerement,
who! like Herakles or Tydeides might slight a god!

II

Round referrals, better to heal brief grappling with,
child of Earth, oriel through thought, claims settle went.
Withless succession of Season’s retirement and lode
Of Pi, confused, hums hunch in purchase.
Finish for a day, soul is sounding lodger;
Straight, staggered ship rounds Isle of Purpose;
Sad eye sane wits betterment.
Distensible pride must grovel dishevelment
And that through the picket of tight teeth.

III

Soon, to markets’ cashed sustenance; the molding month wears:
Pulled, trolley brought bacon to roll consumption down hole as mouth;
Overtook cloud’s insistence, and sec,
Outpaced drip-nonchalance, who’s hands-up contains sway.
And what a mess was made of touch-type involvement,
Their mud: the other’s arrests as currents: his dispersants,
As the trickle-down dammed on the up-side,
As biered whole exercise was damned treacle lie;
Gadarene rush into brusque lawlessness,
That like wink un-mannered men of the ill-stared Ithacus
Grouped fall round blame galling mannerists.
Posturing defense trammels Democracy.

IV

But fear! What if their worse were their urgents;
Were thought more book than cover?
Is not that part false-happy’s blandishment?
chancement that makes Disbelief,
then in rescuing turnaround Up-fingers new tyrant?
If you are but pushed by unseen hands, felt,
Loaded to fire by once shelled behooves,
Are not still bartered by Distill to keep it simple,
Be own holy fool, own Myokonin, Atman beholden,
Through involved reckoned years,
Attending opponent weight of the world?

V

Allow, oh sign of things crossed. In the counsel of years
Anger rebukes accepted satiety, spread back-take of excuse!
Resistance, full fee, sets key to lock; and free! who
Omit full unquestionable sanity.
Essence of life is lengthening inquiry into God;
Certainly not unconstitute when separate into parts!

With civil tongue done then was canting veiled in curse.
And writer, nonce of books petitio principii had words for
bleed matter verse. Legacy stood merit,
not praise foul facile segregate;
So, like the mineralist in his Epigram, Venetian Thirty-fifth,
You ‘Live and keep on writing friend,’!
St. Petersburg – your Cyrillic Rome, Walcott your Virgil.
What you do not understand of forms, virtues lost,
These beckon, answered, concerned, compt.

Copyright © 2011 (23 Oct.) -2015-2020 Joseph Marcel Duvernay.
Notes: Canthus: either of the angles formed by the meeting of the upper
and lower eyelids – i.e. with eyes closed, as if. P/o Cant 2: a salient angle; a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing; a slanting or tilted position; an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube; an oblique or slanting face of anything. Assination: for (my) asinine, stupid. Cerement: death cloths, etc. Oriel: a bay window. Distensible: swell, swollen, etc. Gadarene: The demon-possessed swine in Mt. 8:28 that rushed into the sea. Blandishment: something that tends to coax, cajole; allurement. Behoof(s): singular/personal of behoove(s). Myokonin: A Japanese Buddhist holy fool, “the wonderful kind people.’ Atman: In Hinduism = the self. Canting: affectedly pious or righteous. Nonce: the one, particular, or present occasion, purpose, or use (for the ~); the time being.
Petitio principii: begging the question. Cyrillic: Slavic, Russian, Eastern European and Asian alphabet.
Said to have been invented by St. Cyril. Compt: archaic var. of count.