Cloistered in Illusion
virtue, easy and contemporary anonymous
a frugal collection of secrets and vanities
measured naked fully clothed
neither chaste monk nor sinner saint
mongol when roused
.................................all consuming

consuming all in the logic of acquisition
.....................................................visible,
aesthetic, transferable
a metronome to habit
........................constant
a dimension ransomed by ambition
amid the mossed stones of ruined churches
raised one by two by two
...................in ancient craft and high deeds

born in a covenent of individual roots and quotients
sown in a moment of slow time
and random grace found in the gleaners search
beyond impatient harvest

.................................wandering as is
toward unintended embassy
in the chaos of the common

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ConSuming Virtues