The Emotional Orphan

Barn-Alpharetta, Ga Broadside

Barn, Alpharetta Ga

God,
save me from buildings.

Pedantic rectangles,
metaphors for just toil
and American exertion.

Save me,
from the obscene utility
of a clapboard barn;

from the mute
accusation of windows;

the senseless aggression
of a pitched roof,
sloped to slough water,

the Richter eloquence
of a sharpened weathervane.

In my country
the regression of architecture ,

houses always folding
back in to the land,
belying their henge composition,
their ancient bog-anatomy.

Industrious buildings disturb me.
Their lack of compromise
makes me sad.

I see them, framed by sky.
Silos for the grain-attrition
of the Protestant Work Ethic.

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