Half rhyme

Half rhyme, 1/2 scientific thought,
partial bushwhack and contemplation,
50/50 rant and social observation,
semi-ecstatic nature walk,
6 of one half-hum. Not the zeal
that sunders the quarky neutron,
nor the force that lights new dawn

and creases courtlands in the field,
but more than half made with glue,
unguent, solvent, what have you,
that acts upon the too many halves
and halves not, but renders for laughs,
for a breath, a split second or two,
the whole ball of wax, half true!

first published in Green (Graywolf Press,1988)
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