04-24-2020, 10:41 AM
When It Wakes
Cat-eyed owls flock
over owl-eyed cats
a sharp-eared lynx surveys
with torpor, menace
fright from by our sleeping
etcher’s twisted ankles
with this lesson: Sleep
of reason brings forth
monsters.
Is that so, Francisco–
apostolic faith
antithetical to Reason
such a monster-spawner?
Etching down your own
faith in what men call Reason
you’d have heard of tumbrils,
Committees of Public Safety,
a Terror no stark staring lynx
or slicing owl could contemplate.
Yes, Reason’s sleep
may first breed little monsters but
as Reason wakes they stretch
within it, grow to mountain height
eclipsing hope and love
in monstrous cruel
Reason’s overarching blight.
Cat-eyed owls flock
over owl-eyed cats
a sharp-eared lynx surveys
with torpor, menace
fright from by our sleeping
etcher’s twisted ankles
with this lesson: Sleep
of reason brings forth
monsters.
Is that so, Francisco–
apostolic faith
antithetical to Reason
such a monster-spawner?
Etching down your own
faith in what men call Reason
you’d have heard of tumbrils,
Committees of Public Safety,
a Terror no stark staring lynx
or slicing owl could contemplate.
Yes, Reason’s sleep
may first breed little monsters but
as Reason wakes they stretch
within it, grow to mountain height
eclipsing hope and love
in monstrous cruel
Reason’s overarching blight.
Non-practicing atheist