Four Ways of Looking at a Ceiling
Sprinkler
1
Periscope down, hidden
And Mother's spying eye...
Keeps me safe
2
Demagogue. Your congregation,
The many molecules
Through you reborn
To go forth
Saving
3
Fountain like a new
Greek sculpture. Art Nouveau
So classical. Can't regain
A golden age or be saved
By a renaissance fireman
4
Metal daisy. No beauty. Cold.
The flower
Of an industrial age
poem by Colleen F. Halley
spring 1990