Something of a One-Note

" Something of a One-Note "

by Suzán Jiván

Performed on YouTube

Something of a one-note Bellwort
dropping at the end of a forking stem
discarding the leafy portions
as yellow bells
dangling beneath slender
arching stems-berries red
Hearing ineffable echoes
soft and feathery
as past and present laments
in threadlike torment
mixed with myth
littered with prescriptives
of the apocalyptic
As a straight-up
impersonation
of a toppling stage
at the end
of an unsustainable
rainbow
for the unnamed
on opening day
plagued
by power plays
and becoming
upstaged
by a miming
narrator
with an amazingly
pliant spine
and a precise
choreography
of the eyes...