strange beatifications
i could not sleep last night
over the sound of the end 
of the world 
so 
instead
i looked for the mirror 
which flows and falls on the marshlands
where lately 
you 
hulled out
and 
threw away 
the dusty old throne 
of G-D.
there i inquired
after the old style (which 
(even in those days)
had since fallen out 
—and in—
and back out of fashion)
as to the meaning
of strange beatifications
and anti-damnations
and i sang of such instruments 
that cut teeth in the dark.
September 3, 2020.
