Reverence doesn't need a cathedral,
just breath & intention & charcoal
signature smudged at hip, a chorus
of two ecstatic voices,
a devotee on his knees,
his confession accepted.
What cathedral there was
has unfolded, split open
to spill out a tangle of stars,
constellations to catch on--and
how pious her flight, now we've
thrown open her doors.
For my friend on the occasion of her wedding. What I know of mirrors is their imperfection, their imbalance of mathematics: one reflects one, & we imagine this is wholeness & we believe we know oursel
For my friend on the occasion of his wedding. No eye for art, you said, and turned toward Hunger, livid color leaving you cold, neither keen, nor compelling, not enough, not when you already know how
It is not Death that watches us with suspicion, yet you invoke Her name anyway, make of Her a boundary, make of me an earthen intimacy. There is no revelry in roots no matter how deep they run, only f