Monday, July 25, 2016

Entropy's Eddy


Entropy's Eddy


From the bar,
we drove to the Hall in night’s sable shadow.
In the glare of the headlamps we saw
a blackbird by the roadside dying.
When we arrived at the Hall of Mirrors
we parked and hurried into light and sound.
Elbows akimbo,
we danced,
and time peeled back like an onion.
Oh, we were dazzling that night!
Smoke fled into cigarettes and pipes
and clap followed echo
as we took our bows.
After the show,
we piled into Ellen’s Mercedes
and raced to the bar.
On the way
we saw a bird
fly from a sporty red roadster
and into the waiting arms of a tree.
We drank absinthe and water, and
later we danced again
while the west paled in an early dawn,
and a blackbird cawed on the back porch rail,
speaking to us in time.
A flashy red roadster screeched into the lot,
putting to flight the bird and stopping all the clocks.
Still a while we danced in frozen time,
but the agents of entropy were among us,
and they started it up again.
Soon it was time to leave.
From the bar we drove west to the setting sun
till we came to the Hall of Mirrors
and the night began in earnest.


First published in "The Conspiracy Unmasked," 1994

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