Wednesday, January 11, 2017

lxxviii.


the churches of the unwieldy
are scattered across the street

buried in office buildings, along
the gutter thick with leaves,

the parking lot at the edge of the light

the churches of the unwary rise high, or
low, thickly bricked,

with bricks or chatter, sometimes choked
with song—

the churches of the weary are no church
that we have yet seen, are passed

invisible, in pieces, from hand to hand
carried in the eyes, and the brush

of two passing, slowly, in the street

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