Ambivalence
the cracks in
every floorboard.
In the late Beethoven Quartet,
American suicides leap from Bush’s eyes.
Rembrandt’s elderly face appears through the bowels of clouds
minor major focused
compassion, carrousel and quagmire.
A furious washing of hands!
Water for Beethoven,
blood for the kneeling bells.
70 years as a fetus in
the womb of a bomb,
a firefly
fire roach
napalm gnome
(my psyche stuffed with forgetfulness gold.
