Showing posts with label 22 Dec 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 22 Dec 12. Show all posts

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Unadorned

The simple stays in disarray,
The loose dust a sunny empire
Of hovels and broad boulevards
On a hospital windowsill

As on a desk in a study,
On chipped tabletops in diners
As on the feet of the bronze lamps
In old velvet hotel lobbies.

Bright light and direct attention
Create the visions, not the dust,
But a love of the disordered
Brings the gold-leaf to the waste.