Vernal Equinox
it’s because
vespering Venus
and an annular
pared moon
align with
the set sun
as if designed
by a cosmic
kinetic jeweller
and the heavens
are symmetrical
as nothing
on Earth was
that speaking
animals
abandoned
swards of words
for galaxies
of number
to start
map-reading
time with
and eventually
make
from phases
of metal words
and machine-tooled
maths
anything like
a Lucifer
and falling moon
Osney Oxford
20 March 2007