Aporias

1.

Actually

He likes word games

   Diffident

In the way they circle about

   Starlings in flight

   Or Seraphim.

2.

With sweeping gesture

   Left to right

Hands hang with head

Under the pressing of the sun:

   Weight of doubt

   Or will.

3.

Against open air, tumultuous sea

   Turtle green

The division is nowhere more evident

Where sand meets froth

   Stark, blinding glare

Wind balmed

   Until night.

4.

Cleanliness,

   Next to godliness

The echo of countless schoolmarms

Chiding, chilling - without regret

   Yeah, rather,

   Motherhood.