Day Six Leafy Glen

October 5, 2010

Six 10/06/10

Bruno left the chattering classes

to start the great chapter house,

an Artemisia, articulate in silences.

Walls that separate us from God

also unite. Hoods file to masses:

the Duke’s son to the rough shod

Alike chose to row the same bark

from vigils to compline, set the gyro

in democracy to tow the ark

Westward through the world’s midnight,

anchoring in stalls of Cappoquin

oarless guests of seal, tern and kite.