Disparate

The Ancient Modern

Disparate  /  Joshua Alan Sturgill     

The Language
and the Meaning
were driven out of Paradise. 
How long

can they remain
each within the other
under a roof of reeds,
constrained by walls of clay?  

Language dallies
where Meaning is unwelcome,
while Meaning nurses
a bitter solitude.  Strangers 

at the End of All;
indifferent
that the End of All
is their estrangement

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