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SICK GLORIA
“O quam cito transit
gloria mundi”
    Thomas a Kempis, 1418

does the fracture of a glacier
mimic the collapse of a bank?

I confess to having such
a sense of the correct sound
chaos makes
        across its great typologies
of disaster and rupture

an ear for the music
          dissonant or not

made when yet another
of the passing glories of this Earth

                              crash