Trinity

 

 

I

Arrive late, reeking of cigars
and moonlight
wearing a ribald grin
too late for sermons,
fitfully prepared to commune
Finest spirits, offered as libation
require only dust, inviolate
grope towards altar
taste sin-biscuit on tongue
ascend to swords of love and
done

 

 

II

Come, Samuel, come Conrad
sit upon my tomb
for at my birth I killed myself
crawling from the womb
clouds of steel and ships of flesh
awaiting those in sermon
accountants queue in every hue
like suicidal vermin

 

 

III

Trust the wind, O
roses, flowing in water
water, floating on the well of dreams
the echo of water, breathes
sleep, to sleep, erect
a temple on the cliffs,
o’erlook the sea
lay your soul upon the shore
upon the sand
you’ll sleep