Shadows of Sentience

That same fly
Buzzing around the kitchen 
for days now

Foucault, tripping his brains out
at Zabriskie point with Sisyphus 
He just wants to be punished
by that handsome Daddy 
In a pastel sweater

Metal rods on religious towers
Creating an 18th century 
furor of origin stories 

Zeus Elohim Allah and God 
OM
Ka Blam
One hand thunder clapping

The coyote is smoking peyote

400 year old 7 ft. Abraham
with a giant winged Sumerian 
that has the head of a falcon
Sugar free Adams rib
Taquitos and a giant one eyed Slurpee
Ninja Mohammad 
veil less Fatima, the real entrepreneur 
Moses the playing card vendor
fantasy adventure 
with Confucius 
Iphigenia, Plato and Dionysus are now furries, humping madly
Einstein with an exalted view of his stubbornness 
Teilhard de Chardin  plays bingo night
with the bones of “Peking Man”

Resolute goal oriented modernists
Speaking over each other
In a jumble
Historic as the Great Wall crumbles in a mushroom cloud

Waiting on the rooftop
For a single illuminating 
Bolt of pure white lightning 
Looking up and out over
1000 rooftops on all the plateaus

Lightning comes from within
From the ground up
It is not a myth

just a …

Swat!

Scot Gresham-Lancaster - Brunswick Maine Sept. 1, 2023