Tableau Blood Moon

the poet on his 
knees holding a

jack-o-lantern 
above his head

as the Great 
Leader steps

behind it with 
its crooked smile

obscuring his 
head the eclipsed
 
blood moon hangs 
over the Fool in 

green and red 
dancer’s tights

with his book
Chaos Theory—
 
The Order Within 
Disorder and he

opens the gate 
of the lion’s cage

and distant 
twisting

black smoke 
swirling 

fires of war
as translucent 

Celestial Beings 
hold a banner

that reads 
Beginnings Are 

Endings
below them a 

journalist prostrate 
in the mud deathly 

ill vomiting a 
bile black as ink