Not So Great
the Fathers invoked a heraldry of the linear,
eschewing the curves of natural shapes.
the Fathers crammed the wonder of the heavens
into a blue box of equidistant stars.
blood doesn’t flow straight like that. nor ivory.
beware such rigidified tongues and flesh.
beware the glint of the single squared Cyclops eye.
beware the cubic Tyrannosaur of the-many-into-one.
what if
the whitewashed blood and fangs and gleams,
and the sharp bursting bombs of red flare,
fell into a chastened heap?
what if
the indivisible stripes of Manifest Destiny
humbled themselves to coil among roots
on a winding riverbank of peace?
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8/5/24 eds
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