White Wine Dyed Red (So It Won't Stain)
Lois found out she has brain cancer
, so, she’s in the corner with
her husband, away from the
concourse of persons
nearly obstructing the
catechist’s proceedings.
Fr. Nick is away
too, surely holding
his eyes in his hands
in another room.
René is to be crucified
, as if dissolving the parts
detracted from the
mysterious hole.
It’s the sixth jurisdiction to try him,
but I asked a question——
Time was not permitting
, and I didn’t leave;
I showed my best assent,
But I loved him,
because he stepped out of
time to walk with
me in the garden.
They
(if you can forgive me)
placed the scalpel of
modernity in his
fist and found
him near the crime
, though, maybe
(if you can forgive me)
, that cell in Toledo could
’ve had a
reinforced lock.
So, after
the cessation——where
the living inherited the
beleaguered and lugubrious
breaths
——I started away
——from that man with
the same tears as
Ganesh’s mother,
and Kelly’s heart
passed the wall——
to the centenarian.
I grabbed him by the lapels of
his space robe
and spat in his face,
because his Dawn had past
away. I shook him so violently that
his feeble neck snapped
, and his head smiled at the ground,
and the thud rang resound
of a love without end:
“for sure He’s your friend!”