ENCOUNTERing ORNETTE

Cementing Relationships

CEMENTING RELATIONSHIPS

Seeking a concrete image

to convey

             a pre-stressed thought

I lay foundations

for a fettered space.

The blue-print fails

the structure

              falls

far short of my emotion.

Set in my ways,

unable to explore

               the breaking strain

my need will carry.

Construct a hermitage

of words;

              contain

a solitude

upon the pristine page.

                                 Malcolm Evison