Like Flies

Like flies on the ceiling the idea of independence 

has meanings too complex to recite at whim; this 

came to me when diligently trimming my beard - 

not an arduous task yet there is cause and effect 

marking boundaries upside-down flies describe - 

now scry the ridge in a hairline where beard-end 

blends like an erratic curve a flying upside-down 

fly states that’s where you land upright 

So in the manner of the fly we have to try in the 

auspices of an unfriendly mirror-reversed image 

which naturally make a mess of it; is this a price 

of independence you ask - observing flies have 

ceased their reversed ceiling sojourn - returned 

to the hold of sensibly coiffeuse gravity 

© 4 March 2015, I. D. Carswell