HEART THREAD Parts Forty-Five and Forty-Six

45.

Ogmios tongue me what to tell

halfway to hell I dare make
invocation

inspirez-moi the Temple must be built C.G. tenor solo bare rock in Judaea

teach me how to do this thing you
make me do

the hymns of Milarepa thrill from
strange obedience

teach me to tell what I don’t know

learn from the babble when you sting
my lips

strange means an unknown woman

coming through the door arms full of
flowers

I can’t understand a single thing she
says

I have no choice but to write it
down.

46.

Draw a picture of the Temple here

as you imagine it so it shall be

here is a photo of you building it

here is a rainbow to wear around your
neck

keeps you safe in battle with the sky

who taught me to work this damned
machine

all moving parts are still only the
electrons move

rich men keep getting richer as
drunkards just stay drunk

there is no doorway to their castle

a house goes on forever like the old
Winchester place

money has no natural frontier

the violin mourns the new-fallen
king.

ROBERT
KELLY