What is, what was, the assembling <br />Of the fractured parts - aggrandized historic <br />Porcelain - significant now, <br />Had no meaning at the time. <br />There are no simple theses to explain away <br />The waves of relativity - the significance of whispers <br />That slip across frozen chasms of tense prepositions - <br />A watched pot, a stopped watch, a coincidence, perhaps - <br />Wringing substance from the nothingness <br />Of adoration vanquished - vacant as the eyes of evil <br />At the point of mercy. <br />What is, what was, the resumption <br />Of disengagement, the disenfranchised, <br />The disavowed, the coldness of stone, <br />The fortresses, the middle ages, penetrating <br />Still and now, full Technicolor, wow - <br />A Nielson prime time boon, <br />Was nothing then at all.<br /><br />Kelly Vinal<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fractured/
