the black box

Christopher Mulrooney

it retains the treatise
expounded unto us of silence
enjoined at all events
for the concatenation of a myriad eventualities
that happen it may come by us
and pass or focus all its strength
to deposit the world of mayhap
on our doorstep
 
this is a circus be it warned or warning
or that it fold by us its tents
and use the high poles of the roustabouts
to plant a fearsome image
as of an aerialist above nothing

Christopher Mulrooney

has written poems in Review Americana, Tulane Literary Review, Mandala Journal, Pitbull, Mot Dit, Burning Houses, and Otoliths.

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