*Piranesi's prison

Inspired by Piranesi's LA PRIGIONE È (NEL)LA MENTE (The Prison of the Mind)

I say the mind's a prison, too

-the real one'!

& a maze that gnaws on a lost

horizon

that's everywhere 'except near,

and draws instead

fake bloomy eyes & cruel gape-

mouthed smiles--

the tall empty-roomed kind

(with lolling heart)

that saws clouds & dawns in half,

pieced in the sand