Consolidated Minds

The opaque cloud of christian torture

Floats past an evanescent pool

Of sea

Where Poseidon still rises from his amphibian solstice

To spray us with adventurous torrents of spring.

The rain salted with Sahara sand

Falls on a parliament where guards

Change little twice each day.

Men wake from a Euro paradise

To again succumb to the tyranny of empire.

Goldman and Greece mix poorly.

Purpose is lost in overgrown gardens

The Smile on the Cycladic stone woman has vanished

After 3000 years of perpetual tempest.

Her face smoothed in pure abstraction

Pre-geometric, post –modern

She waits to be claimed by an Upper East Side Museum.

When wars and walls tumble markets with margins of error,

Waves of intersecting lines hold humanity up

17,000 assembled at the theatre of Dionysus

Where mass speculation of personal condemnation

Educated the planets first democracy on the sea.

Sitting back on my bed watching “Lost”

Wondering if this solitary world connecting event

Is not the title of the displacement in our

Republic of filibuster championships

And high jacked hopes for new bills for legislation

While new bills for resignation into the world order of

Freedom frees us wealthy polluters,

And like Media Murder our families

Only now in generations to come

And watch the amphitheatre fill until

Now we are locked in culture

Not pop as of the baby boom.

Now Damien Hirst declares nature in art irrelevant

As he splatters pigment over dying

Winged monarchs of the North American kingdom.

Now Kilimanjaro fish tumble down

New streams on melted mountain peaks

While perspective reappears on billion dollar gallery walls.

Now shopped photos in tint unrecognized

By receptors of ancient 20th century modernists.

Normalcy returns as a perversion