Science  Write  Now

[1] Stratus in ragged shreds

Meanwhile, on the floor of Parliament

absolute time

disputes with relative time –

no kinship here –

the sun naps its way

through slogans

policy disintegrates

into magnetic reversals

as the opposition

scoops at the sewer with a spoon.

A catastrophe of katabatic

cloudy thinking

pours over a distant escarpment

that vision

might reach in a day’s

hard walking.

Hostilities accumulate

forethought and integrity

scattered

like cummulo-stratus

                                    under

            differential stress

leaving status

and wise statutes

                        in ragged shreds.

[1] Mainly geological and meteorological terms