Ars Poetica Nothing's given only the jungle- as the self is a head full of broken windows the body under quicksands & a free mind thunder of Zeus as a song in the bones & no enlightening the dust of gunpowder on the cellar floors a congress of mixed birds in the attic on arched Learning Maxims of grinning death- graffiti hallelujahs kicked out of homes or exiled the initiating trouble makers one at a time only & naked sight a wedding in a casket the new born comes out of- the joys of spending pure gold each moment is Vincent Ferrini July 4th, 1979 Vincent Ferrini is a Gloucester, Mass. poet.