Saturday, June 11, 2022

the oblique

 


sunlight in the

spaces between houses

 

map of loss

 

geography of both

memory and sorrow and

then what?

 

find the man with the

crosses carved into his palms

 

find the one with the head of

a crow,

with the mind of a jackal

 

the junkie hymns are

what matter here,

and the prayers

of murdered dreamers

 

gold and myrrh and that

all gifts are weapons

 

that all lovers

believe in resurrection

 

the heart betrays the body

                                yes

but then the

body betrays the soul

 

ecstasy precedes despair

 

the desert spreads without

mercy in every direction








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