171.
Rescuing forever from never I put the
writing in your hand
writing in your hand
come back from the place that never
was
was
when the city deserts its gods flee
to the fields
to the fields
in the woods gods won’t leave you
alone, you pray by breathing
alone, you pray by breathing
and even so you have to write it down
this is your sole commandment listen
and repeat
and repeat
because the word you hear changes in
you to the word you say
you to the word you say
and only you can say it world without
end amen
end amen
but the Mass your body is is always
beginning
beginning
your body is praying all the time
knows more about the gods than
Socrates
Socrates
if you don’t know the answer no one
does.
does.
172.
Be careful of numbers that come into
your head
your head
light-filled windows of an empty
house
house
listening is filling a terra cotta
jug with water from a slow fountain
jug with water from a slow fountain
listening is walking down a street
you never saw
you never saw
walk the grass between the sidewalk
and the curb
and the curb
to be in the between is to be born
again
again
any tween space is the primal cave
the folk you see around you are
bisons on the wall
bisons on the wall
every salesman a highpriest grammar a
wizard’s spell
wizard’s spell
the witches love you and the birds
are all machines
are all machines
you wind up the engine with your
first breath
first breath
keep breathing or all the lights go
out.
out.
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