11th Hour Mass

-Cipactli, San Francisco State University, Fall 2007 (Printed As: Dinosaurs)

 

In a roofless church breached by the brain of God

out of the sod the pews were rising

and the earth had been crying

its face was matted with wet and grass

every one of our stepsswallowed

 

Have you ever felt this lonely, I asked

 

I was standing on broken stones like divination ruins

a month before I left you, again

 

The crows began to land, one by one

near saintly stained glass, now shelled out

you stood below with a camera, your one-hole eye

and listened to my altar words

 

and I said, take a picture,

because we'll need this when we get older