2253
7.60
2.iii.26
as far
as the eye can see
ekphrastic for Grayson Perry’s
‘Animal Spirit’
to market to market
these are the words
serious reasonable rational wise
prudent sensible fair
bear’s balls and bull’s
horns
tongue out between teeth
common sense important
hanged from a bare branch
before the endless oilfields
objective logical
you won’t even see how a
planet burns
with manger child
and fern crack rise
armoured like a clock
rapacious
sky’s comet struck
all this climbing
now just here
splat
