A more immediate sieve for
Facts that
Sullen lay on the breadmat
Of a lush lie;
The splendid becoming of,
Trumpet, mar
Of a distended love; this
Sieve will sort
It all.
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Gathering just-a-bit-o moss 
I feel on the cusp of understanding it and yet, the political environment has messed with my head some locking up words into a specific connotation such as – facts and lie. If that makes sense. It may not. My mind went to politics.
Thanks for the link, Tammy. I share your pull towards the political interpretation, with an inkling that it was the intent of the poet, given the choice of “Trumpet” as well.
In any case, with frequent tweets and continued presence, it is difficult to ignore this man/child who would be king. Most likely his intent, I believe. As much as he seems to go nuts over censure, he makes little attempt to be reasonable in his pronouncements – less than little, much of the time.
Like a misbehaving child, he seems to crave attention of any sort (unless his subconscious desire is to be forced to step down, when he will finally be able return his attention to minding his empire as he complains about how unfair it all has been — which crosses my mind as well).
Food for thought!
xx,
mgh
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From an outside, ignorant of the intimate knowledge of his life, my intuition contemplates the mastery of manipulation over everything else, therefore excluding any of my empathy or interest of his personal motive/goals…except to say it affects us all. And it is really an unfair position.
At least I am not off with the poem and you could see what I was talking about. That’s a relief. 🙂
Your insights are normally on target, in my experience. xx, mgh
xoxox
Thanks Madelyn for the thoughtful comment. That the poem is political is spot on. Also, it attempts to hint at the poem as a filter that sieves through social data, drawing an implicit parallel between interpreting social events using verse and mathematics to interpret the physical world. It is ‘immediate’ as it closer to the gut & hence less mediated by conscious processing like the social sciences.
I am even more impressed with it now – and you. WELL done!
xx, mgh
Thanks 🙂
You are most welcome. Thank YOU for sharing.
xx, mgh
It is a political poem. Less consciously informed by US events (although Trumpet did slip in subliminally) than by poetically exploring the roots of deceit in language mainstreamed by power.
Interesting because that was the thing I was struggling with in the poem – the mainstream language and the current events that are affecting me even when reading.
these especially troubling times compel our words to make renewed sense before figuring out what to do
I agree. Without this poem though, I wouldn’t have realized how much I was being affected by the repetitive nature of polarization of terms, words, framed associations in the news. The poem stifled my mind which was what it needed to recognize it. Always appreciate when writing can affect me in this way. I’m so so grateful for this.
And I am humbled. And glad that this poem is dialogue.
🙂
I was talking about Trump in the first paragraph just to be clear, whom I despise ehhh