she|he snuck under the canvas wall;
circus pinned emerald,
hung
on the edge of the bounding plain
reality seemed a vertiginous map
ratcheted up banks of wooden pews
audiences tense
topological display of social rectitude
choked fingers in fist’s clinch, seeds untwittered along still branches
Durga’s children seek amongst tulle banners, plumed horses, tumblers and high-wire prancers
big-top pronouncements
that loud man in a top hat
why, what for
to know
where the next foot will fall
Giantess of all circular things, radii reined
saddled pi & rode sublunary spires
grazed subsequent, carnal intersections
absurdity in the absence of god: born face to face with the irrational
more practically, how to avoid
crushing
certainty
death