MICRO-MOSAIC
This circle of 7 emerald palms
(with 8 red dots across
lifelines) was pressed
by hand – an infant hand, Phoebe’s –
under the guiding eye of Grace
(in Providence). Now
I set my cup (micro-
mosaic from Byzantium) in place
atop these marble squares, that trace
brass compass & sundial
of Roger Williams. Trial
by English fire (Coke’s carapace)
was his – to bring the Narragansett
word for liberty
to London (& to me).
The sovereignty of good, in its
vernacular incarnation, is
one global, crystalline,
turtleshell acorn –
Shakespearean lap of happiness
(skullcap, human Golgotha-dome
worn meekly in Ferrara
& Venice – Ravenna,
Providence...) – What cheer? Welcome,
warbles Canonicus, chief
Shaker under raven-
falls (Columbian) –
his handshake stronger than belief.
1.27.16
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