Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pardoning Algol

soldiers masked as door pheasants
preaching into the breaking wind
lovers drawn to the Atlantic, draping
oiled gloves on marching pedestrians
talking about Caesar and portobello
like a façade to a house with no ceiling
they are dancing on the circumference
the seasons they tap upon no less distressed
bottled about or too stubborn to nihilify
waist-deep sailors like swooping mew
songs of affection daunt center stage
stained supersonic museum pardoning Algol
sugared bayonets framed as viper vehicles
the consumers of authorizing legitimacy
war criminals beguiling a soft touch negligence
legacy enemies of the state revealing the contract