Wednesday, May 20, 2015

PALADIN

Words—having
long since turned 
to thoughts

some of 
which have—much more recently 
burned

into certain 
definitive and repeatable 
smoldering patterns 

of action—our hero
has at last

achieved 
the kind of victory

that no fervent child 
in his right little 
fiery impetuous mind—

could ever dare 
conceive of;
for 

so complete-
ly and entirely 
unconditional! as to be 

boring,
and so

colorless—
and drab

when sheer 
doubt-
less-

ness—itself
becomes his uniform.