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.