Love's Portmanteau
February 20, 2020
With rare and new release increase begins, and
ever bigger things
Beggar by savant immanent immensity
Disturb even the common mind whose tos and fros
fling back and forth bid here and there a sorry
indolence
All values incident to such importance warp
the fabric in the nerves perturb,
Even the boors whose turn serves only earthly foils
The fellows growing small debts, and the tellers multiply
Subjugate now through new health, their high-stepping dares
in darling shoes they loved to prance are seasoned, cooled
With perfect stare reply pings here true valency
Impacts at men aubades, amaze imprinted instant
Majority reflection comes, concedes, connects upon
Confession towards affective texts, redacting ties
Pursuits anew – the Yahoo of Genessaret
no longer Legion,
Succour restores him, clothed, in his right mind
Wits' curfews by Love's Sign rescinded, drawn the blind
Rent as the Temple curtain ragged, suddenly
From top to toe
All regular nomenclature fails - let it go
The temper of the sense once hectic, shows white snow
Lights gentle, slowly settling, on a ground of grace
Here sweetest rest, best peace of mind, and probity
As on the lips hang town-cried, thankful, thank-yous
Glad canticles to a value-squared reality
From out once-tunnel vision, one's soul-prison, rieved
Conspiracies of mercy justice, spoke, and made the key
Or otherwise, in liker style of homely simile
By CPR annunciation heals a hapless self
By cardiac resuscitation breaks up loathsome death
On one who made a play of Pharisaic tastes
And one who hitherto had sung conventional authority
The Lord called you by name, up-lighting resonance
in your brain
On global avoirdupois scale into a metric change
All weights and measures, treasures, pleasures, rearranged
Nor more detours before your fired conscience you arraigns
Idling long procrastinations, motes and shadows
Or joyriding the slopes in slalom hopes of doublethink
Or as avatar of pas de deux on the skating rink
Or a cowboy highbrow turning on the horns of his dilemma
Giving impromptu jockeyings as his best steer;
But nowhere here abides sure sufferable command
Decides which critter rides you; tames your remonstrations
Restrains inside your strident claims, and cloves your heart instead
Closes by careful kindnesses a move to grab you
Your bullish rodeos dispersing
Your foolish sideshows stopped
Once you, sir pose, with your acumen, were bawled a grandiose thing
The procurator of the earth's most-boasted subtleties
Rough covetoise, red-eyed at midnight situations
Gilt avarices, all the windfall contumelies of pride
Top diplomat precentor; agent from 'the other side'
Once were a home-from-home alternate operator
Against the peace has distrained you from mazy nether rooms
By attuning you, who knew how to, and blew, a tone off key,
To love's made-perfect pitch
Might not, may never, not a quaver, miss one modest catch
Haling you out, Love's Sol-fa Tonic, has called you from your ditch