Lilliputian

[Pat Doiron]

Lilliputian

Tease,
call me
scavenger.

So I had to
steal, beg, and bribe:

Steeple keepers,
captains, fishermen,
merchants, ferrymen,
nagsmen, magicians,

those noose men

whose squareknots, overhands,
bowlines & sheetbends
are now loosed,
stretched into
straight lengths;

Tangled nets
forever unwoven,
pulled & driven,

prayers,
asking integrity's strength.

hello nibbed, I actually like this one allot one thing and probably the only thing i don't get is, what is the "tease" it just seems out of place to the rest of the poem and there is no return to its reference... feel like if it's there it should perhaps come back in the last verse or something, for closure lol