seeing simplicity
stacked where scholars
count cords of wood in
4 by 4 by 8 feet lots
is not risk-taking
– so they say
the measure
means less than
the horrendous reality
that these were once
a biodiversity
of living trees
discorded innocence
it is which bears the name
but odium clings
perversely
to the deciders
of need & fate
the symmetry
I see equates to
human beings piled
neatly by the Sheldon cord
contemplating
their uncertain destiny
© 16 August 2008, I. D. Carswell
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