Monday, May 12, 2014

For Jay

Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν.
you were mortar fire in my vacationist mind
I have your wild brain

We drove down Mendenhall, and your fifth step
foreshadowed
my
flailing life

I plucked my pukas
and stared at a homeless woman

Memphian Mysterion,
a thousand tears old,
I know the burning.

I know the burning.

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