I contrast hierarchy with hegemony , the juxtaposition of the real & surreal - Geoffrey Hill

Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
of a half-eaten ram; vicious wounds in earth
opening. What seraphs are afoot.

We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other.

The years will not
answer for what they have done, that much is
certain. There is no shaking them, we
might have foreseen this but refused.