Veneer

Then perhaps its veneer had lost that sheen - there 

weren’t intimations of the earlier zest’s vitality: even 

if it’s droll & we’re sanguine about nought unseemly 

in its warp & weft, its appearance vitalises destined 

space with vestiges that haven’t impressed dream- 

time images of what we’d expected next; a rational 

hiatus after fantabulous change, maybe; but if it’s a 

pathway leading to runaway hallucinations - well - 

It represents a rare opportunity; so we’ll let it bide a 

while today; later we’ll play the tool’s roles and be a 

party to fitting things where they’re planned to be in 

the scheme we’d no problems foreseeing - & yet let 

it be said, thresholds bred whenever still lead a way 

to portals we’ve yet to see in that opus conspiracy 

© 12 July 2017, I. D. Carswell