Final Significance                                            


Apropos for the Bantam edition
of some Canterbury Tales to be sitting

on top of the toilet’s tank,
in Modern English translation, next to the shitting,

certainly a concern of Chaucer
for its naturalism or metaphorical potential

the paradox that noisome dross
can be gold nugget and so value exponential

to the trained eye and subtle mind
far above the level of the squatting behind