Time in the Likes of St. Peter Petrel

Dissolving into merely adequate history
Where the bar is low and the pace is fast
Too ill-tempered to relegate sober and nuanced designation

Steady state consultation
that the aperture is speedy
and the crown is jeweled by Washington insiders
whispering pleasantries with time-hymned monuments

Aparthotel commencement stones
wavering like rust on moving crabs
like dust on cited books
where Bristol board covenants
on stolen grant Decembers
decide stociously that the morning is wasted
and water does not decide Her