ENNUI

in aesthetic room 
tide and tidy mind 

unaesthetic dust reassembling 
within the whole 

embraced by its hollow 
a cracked bowl gasping 

within the need 
knit by a needle 

an empty womb crooning 
within the navel 

pierced by a nail 
parental love enduring 

through the glass window 
under wistful cabbages 

earth’s ulcered guts fretting



                              (1969)