the fellowship
Mr. Jackson knew that
anticipation is
everything. Nerds will
wait hours to learn again
what they already know
and can never forget:
in our case the fate of
a ring and the ragtag
crew assigned to see it
through what evil weather
green pastoral hills could
be made to reflect through
what tricks of perspective
trivia and riddle
lay to narrative’s hand
through darkness by torchlight
disconsolation by
song fear by truth of heart
to the mountain of its
destruction: and whether
it or this fellowship
of fellow travellers
made friends along the way
will be the first to break