Efficiency Versus Thought

We looked abroad for an answer.
We zoomed in on "if the orange leaves are smitten."
We focused on orange.

We looked abroad for another world,
in which "porpoises shimmer in the continental glare."
And we concluded that there

was nothing in orange and nothing in the other image.
There were no hidden meanings locked in smitten or
shimmer, and nothing unseen in the creatures.

So with the help of friends we changed trajectory,
and not only that, we changed velocity.
We asked Katrina if she knew,

and then Daniel Kane, and we went to the beach
and found McManus and asked him.
"...if frost hides the leaves
and the pump's concerned handle
won't lift," he said

and then trailed off. Something about Florida.
Something about the earth's weird spinning
and a bonfire's flares,

the veil of sand, a monument
of ashes there.

copyright 2007 Aaron Belz
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