STALWART

STALWART

one day
not upon a time
the plants
elected
to row straight

electrifying with joy
stalwarts everywhere
every
  treacle-thick politico
in
wotlds known
and worlds
unkown

fairy tale
and the political
racing
to conclusion
running in parallel

Oh happy day
exclusion of the middle
extermination
of the extremities:
it’s so
   axiomatic, lowest-
common-denominator
raised to the heavens
square
    root of zero
dutifully delivered

and in the woods so
much smoke
the trees so
covered in soot you
cannot see the leaves

but
Pan’s man, fabulous
Guillermo has
set a fantastic trap
they are
bound
to fall into

surrounded by thorn bushes
in the light of their shadow

you could not
do anything to look
more enchanted
       surpass the mystery

conjuring up
a string of images

                    burrowimg in
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teaching us how
                  to align, accept
the imperfect, rough
and smmoth

how to accept what is
for what it is
       become part of
the picture

native to this place