Elerly Elegance

[easyeverett]

like a skein of silk
blown back across
and up on top
a gray-day bump of wind

elderly elegance walks
with purposeful wobble
a scattered path
with seeds and stems strewn
evenly
in dim-lit Central Park

the narrow path displays
a woman's unprotected
piece-meal death
by incremental isolates
of soul decay and dissolution

running round about
are rabble
ripe with skills to kill
a spirit
filled with filth
of labor application
long diluted
by false dreams of destiny

virtues found
in poverty will guarantee
the meek inherit
only dust
upon the dusty meek

her days of breeding
to increase
an aristocracy of arrogance
are through

underneath her bland denunciations
are palpable power and thirst
which begs with need
the weak to speak
for intercession
with ancient aged opposites
committed to commit