Distorted images

shining up from wet pavement

Slow lonely traffic

uncertain destination

Civilization

a wilderness mispercepted

Discovery born of

unschooled education

Decadence, future father of Roman change

Will the futures dawn ignite Heaven or Hell

Will Eden triumph or Hades again paroled

Looking thru a window into a wishing well

Looking out a window

at what may well always be

Thinking of the Ancient Gods

but that is not what I see