Helter-skelter in the woolen piles
placed precariously
on his heat
contextual evidence
suggests
this may have arisen
from a desire to be
other than himself
and from himself
he fled
with an acute resolve
swamps of hand lotion
what grows in this soil
but the bitter herbs
of discouragement
disconcerted
crisis averred
the word
and the voice
the voice
and the ever turning wheel
-r. miller