#2126 - does not sit well

 

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does not sit well

ekphrastic for Mori Sosen’s eighteenth century ‘Monkey Troop’

 

all this is politics

and in the heat, under falls

allegoric

blossom beginning

 

the bark and sniff, the rounding on

clamber of twig let and twilight

falling asleep aglow

 

some in zazen

imagining foliage

 

here’s conquest, there’s play

a nose to fresh the air

 

and love’s offstage as you’d expect

 

there’s some surprise though

swing for it

 

Tarzan type, avant la lettre

 

the tail and the four paws landing

some lion like, some pussies

 

wary of the weather all

fuzzy, hanging on

to nearly nothing too

 

look down just for a moment

see what I have found