angst cycle (iii) — [Ƨ] (vii)

the up is glorious contrast detail
like the battle plans of a great general
rather too much into micro–control

you can see where all the soldiers put their feet
the hills that get downtrod and regrown
the tracks the aircraft crater sites

where the water really ought to flow in rain
the kind of wind the colour of the sand carried
what the enemy has to do too

nah it’s for the camera
not the individual collapse
of an individual unstable atom

just something that’d look quite good
on a photo
of a moment

maybe