Two Poems Bruno Anthony [Total Pages: 3] Anthony Page 1 Compact History Of The adventure begins, like so much else, in the garden of the hopelessly naïve. Fewer angels than expected have arrived. Along the way, disturbing incidents: an appeal to the Holy Office, which refers the matter to Central Planning. Let's not be too literal about this. Thieves in the night behave like squirrels, who       also have reasons to doubt our generosity. And so we go on, treading the big wheel. Dreams make the warp while the woof has      always meant contention between wolfhounds and      pugs. Eventually it leads to Management, cosmetic surgery, and a surfeit of personal electronics. Selah. So we go, through someone else's Utopia, marveling at the dis-and dot-com dogma so different from the girders of the past. Enjoy it all, the apple and the fall, before time packs its tongue in leaves and ash.