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A World Amazing
by William Pitt Root
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When power flatters power it's we who die
When William Carlos Williams wrote the rich
"pass skillfully over" the raised arms of
the poor left drowning in their wake,
it made for a poem so beautiful with its
skillful depiction of the yachts (fixed to our
own yearnings toward that grace we've
been encouraged since birth to think of as
blessings handed down through generations
for work well done way back when) that
we forget upon whose bowed shoulders
those burdens were borne, whose backs
were hunched from the hoe, whose wives
went without, whose strong sons and proud
daughters soon bent to the biddings of
masters way back when the division of labor
was just as much a commandment as the
unjust division of profits. We read his words
blinded by the beauty of their fury just as
those in the water, those on the shore, are
blinded even now by the riotous sparkling
of the wake as it sucks them in, arms raised,
pulls them under, eyes widening,
that all may gaze equally bedazzled
upon a world amazing, a world not theirs.
--Christmas/New
Year's 2003/2004
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