Morale crumbling,
beliefs from breathed
tapering headlines.
irritated glances from the workplace bench
measure for the strength of the soul post
by the body’s work, and break the heart
pooled, colored disbelief by ivory towers
with no ladder but
internal structure feeding burned soil, sword shined
and polished by the glare of judgmental grace,
so high in the earth’s sky,
floating blue and unknown
until the words fall from gtheir own weight