Pneumonia-blue nominates bereaved faces,
and the imprecation for any information
is shorthanded into scratch pads.
Please come forward from bewildered places
is the keynote for the nodding congregation
of clement columnists spared their usual fads.
An unshoeboxed snap is spread eagerly
around the corners of the conference,
of a past daughter snared witless
into posing for a future poster of ignominy.
A nursery rhyme could catch the inference
of a reticent hypothetical witness.
The police commissioner’s oblique brow
has shipshape professional misery covered,
masking taped shibboleths and ropey techniques.
The twitching splintered parents take a bow
and their last look carries to some cupboard
untidy with cracked bones and icy cheeks.
is shorthanded into scratch pads.
Please come forward from bewildered places
is the keynote for the nodding congregation
of clement columnists spared their usual fads.
An unshoeboxed snap is spread eagerly
around the corners of the conference,
of a past daughter snared witless
into posing for a future poster of ignominy.
A nursery rhyme could catch the inference
of a reticent hypothetical witness.
The police commissioner’s oblique brow
has shipshape professional misery covered,
masking taped shibboleths and ropey techniques.
The twitching splintered parents take a bow
and their last look carries to some cupboard
untidy with cracked bones and icy cheeks.