David Glines Poet Blank verse

S&D

(d)
from the sonar depths 
came the hum, the pre-mamilian
amphibian tremor rising as from
a vessal of death, still-life
though without breath, casketed
in the liquid womb 
the natal tomb
and emerging, 
drowned in its first
gasp a futile grasp 
for some semblance of truth, 
a gossamer mask.
all that glitters is fallible,

(s)
except those things labeled "precedent,"
"sacrosanct," "sacerdotal," which were
with us at the beginning of the world
before the amphibians, before the 
asparagus, before the glitter of 
the semblance of intellect which 
are all necessarily fallible 
in this natal universe.

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