Operation [Free Verse]

Closeup photograph taken in Jayu Park (Freedom Park) in Incheon, South Korea.
Opening bleary eyes,
back on a cold, hard surface...

I know not where...

All I see,
All I know,
is a confluence of
sharp pointed tips:

hard points of unknown purpose
from which my brain attempts
to gauge a distance as
they come into razor clear
focus.

What hard robotic purpose
have these mean tines?

Brittle Metal Kettle [Lyric Poem]

What a brittle metal
That poor, old forge did make.
He made a little kettle,
But about the spout did break.
And water spilled on fire,
And clouds of steam did rise,
And I felt I must inquire
If he'd felt it was wise
To settle for a kettle
Made of such brittle metal?