Beyond

 Letrilla: All of Which is Beyond Words

i.m Simon Carey Holt, author of ‘Eating Heaven’

 

You and how you talk at table

Speaking of the unspeakable

Together of the present day

Blessed givens and come-what-mays

All of which is beyond words

 

Then on message capable

Messaging the unmissable

Here there nearly everywhere share

Now the news now contempt now care

None of which is beyond words

 

Opinions faster faster

Complex like your bowl of pasta

Situations vast and vaster

One solved the next a disaster

All of which is beyond words

 

Politicians you could throttle

Contents not on the sauce bottle

When this moment calls for cool heads

You hear and say what must be said

None of which is beyond words

 

Tables are level playing fields

Where cases each can be appealed

Things never heard before the Law

You speak at length not one ignore

All of which are beyond words

 

Ice cream softens the argument

The sweet intent of what you meant

Verdicts postponed hatchets buried

When life is a bowl of cherries

None of which is beyond words

 

By tomorrow other stories

Implausible morning glories

Some homely some matters of State

The table awaits your updates

All of which is beyond words