Galleon
the complexity of your crossed purposes
beauty and war, grace and wastefulness,
you rest solidly at sea upon a liquid
without yet dropping through,
a steel log with algorithmic spurs
hollow inside of rust and rot, a contradiction,
weighty, weightless, floating
divine swan human pawns
Jesus weeps Mars is gloating
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Jim Culleny
2/15/20
Pen & ink 1997, Jim C.