CARD TOWERS

The cranes are at it again, necking

Overhead, do they think we cannot see them?

Picking up blue pallets & dusting

Off the fresh powder snow

Dropping one, it falling and thumping

On the fresh powder snow

At a woman’s feet – cursing,

Her fist held up to the indifferent cloud

That would have made a photograph

Or a graph, how many people

Deathed, murdered, killed

Yearly from heavenly bodies

In the making and unmaking

Of the towers of cards