Naqus

Pin disappointment onto proverb 
Prompted by failure proclaim 
دقّ الماء ماء: 

“Pelt, pummel, pound,  
And pestle water;   
Water persists—unchanged.” 

The ancestral whip. 
The crop marks the logic of idiom.  
Pruning performs wisdom. Go. 

Stand before the West  
End of the cloister and bang  
On stagnant water. 

Hammer triplets at each of the four corners then  
Once more in the center. The water remains,  
But the monks recognize the music. 

They will come for the fall.  
They will come with arms.