Ferris

Creaking groaning
yielding to cry of
desire riding in
buckets suspended
by structure bearing
echoes and voices
the knock and clang
of machinery below
this girdered silence
this construction of
frames and paint held
by rivets and bolts
rusty with trail of
some spoor unfixed in
time yet referent to
an upward climb with
echoing voices the
knocking and clanging
until distant from
scratched earth this
constructed silence
thrusts toward open
sky the surety of
ground.

Rojan Zét