Easily Accessible Before

by George J. Farrah

And this being true

  a  steepled

     sail of a   shirt

                or

                 news

         eating  buffalo

            the mark

                   of

                        November

                   in  Spring

Who hears sad

         young wives  electricity

  (I am draining  out an awful story

                                                      or song)

  to   wire you   this

     building   kneeling

       in   places

         who   am   I

                               Kindling?

                  or

                  the  full 

                    harrowed field

              (my so called

                        musings)

      isn’t  it iris  grey

       when you talk noon?

                      a  re-assembled

                              ancient

                            streak

                                         of any

                                               city

                                                 at any time

   

                       the poplars

                              and ash

                            are

                         raging

               the  women and men

                    appear  as

                           sharp

                                     canvas

                           dishes vacuuming

             the first one I mentioned

         the future furniture is not

a rape of nature they say the best critic

 is dying with the daytime always entirely

  comfortable anywhere I will admire the floor

   again and mention sunsets similar to those flowers

     that were easily accessible before but parts of this

      like a news business are the first to be trimmed

         express themselves before the people and what

          laws apply to that because as it is true of any goal

            established by the designer of it our behavior

              is not the problem nor internet nor legs or virtual

                turf the patterns lead to substitute versions of

                  reality which we all know are unfortunate in

                     what skill gets larger it is not something they

                       would have told us above passivity thinking

                         through the whole culture like that brings

                                 it a start   so  the heart

                                   may   respond  just so.

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Farrah will appear in the AlteredScale.com issue three launch reading. (Click link for details.)

This poem appears in Farrah's upcoming book,  The Low Pouring Stars (Ravenna Press). Farrah is a visual artist and holds an MFA in writing from Bard College.