Variations on a Theme by Williams

"There are lots of things we have to go and find out.
We have to go and find out, what red, what wheel
and barrow are, at some level." -- Paul Muldoon
 
perhaps this is why

so much depends
upon

the glazed over rimed
blue

eyes of the stricken
farmer in the muck

beside the dazed 
white chickens,

the frozen up-
ended

wheel of the red
barrow, the fouled

mind gone plowing
somewhere down

in the lowermost reaches
of ground zero.