Litanies as merciless dividers

Pearly rain protectors & providers

Oh at land the eye becomes the author

Tenses drift & one outlasts the other

My dear I'm new at this & i'll still be when I'm through with it

So now I'm done for; what had I begun for?

Gusty blows to hold or loose an arrow

Nerves at odds in proprietary peril

Husk & soot to spread amid the myrtle

Rituals reset to feed the fertile

Bleed dry the finite to suffer what we stole to whistle

Barrier & bottle & pinprick of parted hair bristle

Moonlight is in tow, shimmered in tidal decorum

Faded & mottled, lacking source or static form

My dear I'm new at this & i'll still be when I'm through with it

So now I'm done for; what had I begun for?