The wishing well conceals

all the lessons of pain

begging to be learned, 

just as the marvel 

knows to mesmerize, 

but the cadaver

hides all the while

 

A tableau vivant has 

the erratic pseudo-

frozen as static,

in a world demanding

precarious symbiosis

of supine and lupine,

in the strangest

of feedback loops

 

No real resolution, just

some ragged resilience, 

and a backdrop, perhaps,

of bathos that hopes

to accommodate both 

heads of Janus