Who hops

Around’s

A jot

Unsound:

A bound

Is work

Unwound.

To shirk—

Besmirch

An ant’s

Research—

Demands

More qualms

than alms.

Indulgent summertime

Forgives Grasshopper’s mirth—

Professed in guileless rhymes

And jubilating chirps—

But winter sifts the worth

Of planning, its rewards

Residuals from dearth’s

Disintegrating sword.

The tedium that hoards

An Ant’s untimely meal

Makes pieties of chores

And avarice ideal.

Excess of industry’s

Inverse to sympathy.

Raccoon Raccoon, your shadow
Across the twilit mallow
Was forecast by invention:
Who envisioned your dimensions?

Where is your ashen center
Disturbed to stoke its embers?
Whose elegance there lingers?
What scalpels carved those fingers?

What subterfuge previsioned
Stealth and ringed your tail with ribbons?
When that tail began its swishing
What prodigies of stitching

Or origami sprinked
Its ruling brain with wrinkles?
What rascally connivance
Surpassed poetic license

When first volcanoes clouded
Horizons? Who was shrouded
And who, exposed, discovered
Their true faces to each other?

Raccoon Raccoon, your shadow
Across the twilit mallow
Was forecast by invention:
Who envisioned your dimensions?

Hard science-fiction’s recapitulation:

Monotonies of spectral litmuses

Whose anachronic ratiocination

Progresses “smile”s into “rictus”es.

(Beyond myopic “Sun”, no appellation’s

Parochial as “Sol” Invictus is.)

An epaulettes’ inveterate adornment’s

(Suspended over orchestrating shoulders)

Indicative: ***stupendously important!***

Disparaging impresh’nable beholders

Implicitly, discomfitingly mordant,

The ornament exemplifies the soldier.

“Your episteme’s a mechanism”,

Inverse sunspot watermarks remind.

Beatify that solecism

Guardedly (Tireseas went blind).

Quietus-sorcery’s somnolent countenance,

Cordoning obstinate boundlessness (riotous

Confluence, mountainous violence) sordidly

Counterfeits piousness, orderly providence.

Snail trails dot concrete:

Bleary mucous nodules,

Slinking from snot-feet

Paint flagellant wattles,

Brusquely-scribbled meats.