first gleaning/last light

there's a procession of doves in your rafters
-an army of pecks
-a liturgy of squawks
and up in the cobwebs
-a broken wing
-an army of god
-cobwebs and tongues and elbows, angels and lips

sucked in/devoured
sin-sensical
drifting like dust on the sunbeams (PAINted glass)
-lamb of god
-leg of mutton
-leg of lepers
and no-fair seeing

this ain't grace
this all fucked
this old thing

a procession
-of broken
-of cattle
-of flock
-of orgasm shrieks
and beat/red bottoms

(i've never dripped in punishments quite...like...this).

there's a speck of dust on your father
in your shadows and up your ass
and
there's a procession of doves in your rafters

1 comment:

  1. I love it. Thanks for getting us started, Julie.

    There's a lot in here - I'm still sifting through it. Makes me wish we were on stage already to do that sifting live. I can't wait to get there.

    You hit it dead-on though: the tension between the beauty and grandeur of these images and the brokenness of everything (life, people, words, symbols).

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