The Clockwork Man

I have seen
That
which was meant to be seen
That
which never was
across
the jagged symmetry of radio
and television
waves
beaming from satellites
God-like
beaming
as they share
their message
of global harmony
to the inter-galactic
and their message
(to many)
of five past-meridian
This I have seen
with cogged eyes
and filmed lenses

It is forgiveness
from one grain of salt to another
grain of salt
A tale of automata;
of typographical errors
relentless
determined
intertextual
and failure,
explicit:
the second volume is forthcoming
the revolution
is divisible
by ten and sixty
one nation
bell-towered
and wethered
numbered
orthodox
pandemic
trans-
and post-
all the glowing qualities
of the gilded clockwork age