shekinah buttonwood tree

                             

Aeolian lyre of skyscraper tines, sprung of tor
   footings amid clitter clatter fingers of continents
molted, born to simmer short.song lore,
   board meetings atop bard-meat firmaments,

Round table speakers, self aimed amiss,
   none gallant tongued nor fitted for moral success,
Deaf to wind's siren drone twixt cornice hiss
    all remiss in wax-eared process

Dumb, resonant vertically integrated hum,
    greed runs plumb down to their banjo thumbs,
trigger tape parades, stock bell arcades,
   crashing Icarus gets flag pin accolades

  calling wind a liar, her face Truth perspires,
redolent in music but never retired.




Mt Tabor Oregon
12-15-17