erect
a church of rigid prayer kiss empty
our faith wish for jackdaw’s
milk the
patient affliction to fly again
on ladrous wind beyond
a courtyard wall to spite the
theory of unsight beside
gray-edged daughters
but
the feckless cherubs them and their nothing
wings whose wracking
skirr a goosy writhe boil quill pens
and mysterious logarithms
on wrinkled flesh
and
our piney threads
our sleeping shrouds
pewl with orr-knots insubstantial
dilly-dots hurriedly
scattered
