By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
ACOUSTIC SHADOWS
Outside:
Day breaks
in the bureaucracy of noise
A cacophony of officials
from institutions
environmentally dispersing
analgesic disturbances
Functionaries of dysfunction
dedicating lives
to the administration of busyness
instigating
perpetual motion without purpose
Even in the dystopian state of pandemonium
there are acoustic shadows:
Topographic blind spots
where trees
sing