Paper Trails and Providence
True art is not aggrandized
and it scares monsters away
monsters make mad metaphors in
mystery I pray as grass grows
years are cut from the dirt
and grow again or a bird
makes a home from the
scraps rise calm and
Agape rose from Greece
to Rome curved and columned
marble and stone became Europe
with velvet and gold
paper trails and providence
bring perfumes to the taste
peace is power of chaste over
haste with yellow roses
a wall can be a path
and monsters are turned to
grains and salt and
carried away with the wind
So true, paper trails and
providence bring things to
life again blue and white
breakers will bring you safely in
stuck sails and lighthouses
paper trails and providence
-Jacob Michael 2008
