As the centenary winds up shopping ...

As the centenary winds up shopping in a suburban
mall transcendent as neon debris of all that's known
is massive as the evening. Wax statues of Elvis
and Jesus. Laughter in an orchard. Genuine animal sadness.
Shining like icons, electrocut fish float beneath a bridge
then sink as we look fored through our very senses.
The world is smeared with this until the haze
drifts in, erasing shapes and forms like clintonia's