Captains of reduction

TITANs of enterprise cast our time’s longest shadow,
YEAST mixing, rising, baking the celebrated result,
CANON of society: entrepreneur measured as model citizen.
LEAKY, of course, this view: all other worth drained away.

Past lives

S.A.S. SYstematically shook the shaky seniors, they the
TOKEN of things present yet past, their past seen in a
PRISM of things well- and badly-remembered, like a long-running
REVUE, now a game of two, three, or four halves.

Xmas mehs

SASSY holiday cheer, deep as a shallow puddle,
TOKEN nod to peace drowned by commerce and nostalgia.
PRISM of the season splits our longing into empty beams.
REVUE, noisy, flashy, bouncy, to crowd out low hopes.

Roads and Tracks

CHOCK pulled, plane taxis, soars, slips ground’s hold.
BRIAR, meadow, town, fields, hills. Also:
DROVE of roads and tracks, lines on Earth’s face,
FIBER of societies, nerves and veins, carry pulse and impulse.