
Look Around You
Charles Plymell
Who starred in the movie, “Death”?
And played the chronic blues
when untethered leaves began to flirt
and fall in wayward carpets.
In the full moon
snail paths veer to the west.
A cameo of tree roots grown around a stone
helpless in secret form of unyielding might.
Creation lets us duplicate ourselves
through the eons of blood and science
synchronized neon and dashboard lights
in pirouettes of electric life.
There’s no way out of the brain
it’s an Esher walnut.
Some blow it out
others take up religions, drugs, the arts, and Zen.