Arcadia
Random chemicals strewn along a dead tree
leave marks of intelligent life, seen
by wise men of high esteem who hover
over the cryptic etches no longer unknown.
Taken away, cut, diced, sliced, chewed,
spit out, now unlike what it’s always been,
meaning what it never said, implied consent
by virtue of being dead and unable to defend.
A bestseller released, copy out [...]
