Black Brick

Imagining curving letters In a languid psalm In abstract time Full levity Rolling through intangible phantom mystery And the furnace of gentle dreams A caustic womb Champagne light After the sacred deep blue Majesty of dawn Naked and cordial and virgin And virgin Majesty of dawn Naked and cordial and virgin And virgin Patience and poise Twin ribbons bare And make vivid A dark shallow vein Patience and poise Twin ribbons bare And make vivid A dark shallow vein Disguise and shame Of all light downward A gaunt fashion Pulled tightly over peaking bone A gaunt fashion Pulled tightly over peaking bone A small scene from in the smoking censer A heart, a heart, a heart, a heart The pulse of rotten roots Twining through soil Feasting on droplets Rest come again Come again Rest crack puzzled So urgent, wild Rest crack puzzled So urgent, wild, violent Freedom flutters down The drain again One eye wide to the braille Of fireflies I tunnel brutishly Pig headed And full of steam Full of steam I tunnel brutishly Pig headed And full of steam Into the damp comfort Of this lonely trench Of this trench Of this trench Of this trench Of this trench