felled locations and token provisions

where one fountain pen bites you
another snake will not approach
There is a symmetry to our movements
through this junction of inaction and action
like cohorts of time, soft in the treble
and felled locations like Saturn waste disposals
too clear ivory parchment
that carry their own incisors
and pointed flame, bellicose denialism
bellicose mornings, bellicose readings
like a father talking to his dogs
because his children will not hear him