Physic

Litanies as merciless dividers
Pearly rain protectors and providers
Oh at land the eye becomes the author
Tenses drift and one outlasts the other

My dear I’m new at this and I’ll still be when I'm through with it
So now I’m done for; what had I begun for?

Gusty blows to hold or loose an arrow
Nerves at odds in proprietary peril
Husk and soot to spread amid the myrtle
Rituals reset to feed the fertile

Bleed dry the finite to suffer what we stole to whistle
Barrier and bottle and pinprick of parted hair bristle
Moonlight is in tow, shimmered in tidal decorum
Faded and mottled, lacking source or static form