Paradigm
Patterns by definition repeat
endlessly - even off the page--
off the map.
It is that we
must repeat in
an endless personal pattern
of mistakes, visions, glory, and death
in disconnection; the only
absolution -- self-administered
sprinkling of rainy weather.
Adding only a line,
small adaptations--
slight twists - as
if we were privileged - even
as if we were - someone - a brontosaurus
of diminutive dimensions.
Yet, despite that, we add endlessly
to broader mosaics--
intertwined
and hopeful as lovers.
Lansing
1982
East Lansing Series
©1982 Paradigm — Joseph W. Yarbrough
Reproduction prohibited without written permission.
endlessly - even off the page--
off the map.
It is that we
must repeat in
an endless personal pattern
of mistakes, visions, glory, and death
in disconnection; the only
absolution -- self-administered
sprinkling of rainy weather.
Adding only a line,
small adaptations--
slight twists - as
if we were privileged - even
as if we were - someone - a brontosaurus
of diminutive dimensions.
Yet, despite that, we add endlessly
to broader mosaics--
intertwined
and hopeful as lovers.
Lansing
1982
East Lansing Series
©1982 Paradigm — Joseph W. Yarbrough
Reproduction prohibited without written permission.