Relief of Amsterdam

[Thunderembargo]

Once it occurred, in relief of amsterdam
the assembly chorus hollered
fusion beats bumping hollow moons
playing the time with rusted horns
bleating night-mares into prescient comedy
or rolling up smoke from trees of maple
burnt into sallow inchoate, ashen eyes and sombre
before, they time and times
and half a time
with coal rivers burning up the land
and ghetto dragons breathing crystal
like London fog