Tapering headlines

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