body uncertain.

 

In Lindisfarne, adjectives are the most revealing aspects

of our Lord: they are big beautiful

activation codes

between nouns— the immediate Creation and

all of its subsidies— of observing

the retinal veins reflected in the pure lens

of a telescope

for canals on the orbiting face

of Mars.

 

My brother is jovial in his epicycle;

my other brother saturnine- we walk slow

waltz through the cloisters 

in concentric circles, the observed planets rotating

on the crux of us, singing

matins in imitation of stellar deferents. We remain

a sea-mirror of wholly space in our convent:

singular, irrevocable. Today

 

circumnavigating the coast, wandering lonely

as an exoplanet, I found a god

splayed on the beach, tentacles trans-

   - lucent, bent. Their sides torn with black holes as

if deep space had bitten them in-

   - to...      I pause to

observe

the longship of fingernails

of the north-men in

the distance. 

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