HEGEMONY OF GADGETS

Other forests came. New ways
Of wilting shadow desposed
Green lattices, the leaves foreboding
Coffered rhythms.
They condemned ears of grain to death.
The washing out of leafage was total
In valleys and mountains and plains.
Everything throbbed
By the kiss of a flower
Collapsed.
And earth filled up with scaffoldings
That were affected neither by springs
Nor senile autumns.
One single season,
In the chaos of spurrings, they imposed
Industrial centers.
Orchestras of emtal symphonied
Coulds of smoke. Diagrams of sabbats
Maddened connecting rods and lightning bolts.
The lights kicked. They plunged us
Into the poverty of a sigh.

After so much crime,
Of murdering valid words
For the sake of plastics,
They found a clover
That had been saved from the fire.
The subjugated machines stopped,
Seeing the freedom of that marvel.
And the asphalt gave birth to green eyes,
Seeing the courage of a leaf.