John Most
In Absentia
Horrible positives
A world wild lilting

Beings flung

Wet lingering

In the sand

Foundering starfish

Coarse reasons
Are turned tuned

Round and round
The looked for
Is never found

She becomes mad
A sea roaring

Ophelia electrifying
Leads Ahab


Reasons exist

The pair persist


As delusions
Disguised

Demise crazed everywhere
A wetness
Wet with ideas unendurable

Writing frantically

Their open minds
Cling to the impersonal sky
In time