Eleven orange trumpets
silently pour their
radiant peace
in all directions
...
The Colossus of Rhodes
who did 'bestride the narrow world'
was too big for his britches.
He who bestrides the universe
...
As perfume
pours from
petaled peony blooms
so fragrance still
...
Tens of thousands crucified... Christians fed to lions...
slavery...gladiators killing each other for public amusement
emperors deifying themselves...a culture of hedonism..
animal sacrifice.. the eating of peacock tongues..
...
How majestic
How sublime
that out of muck
and mud and slime
...
Dawn frames the
ebony sky of night
with a pink fringe
...
Hercules sent a river
through the stables Augean.
Was the horse manure
then purified
...
A puddle by a street lantern
in a soft rain of night
Each circumscribing raindrop
reflects sparkles of
...