If This Is Where God’s At, Why Is That Fish Dead?
If God is the one and infinite,
If God is the clear cut and cloudless sky,
Powers, Dominions,
If God is a bed and a held breath,
You have a reason, my friend, to be inquisitive.
The morning smells like Milan, autumnal Milan, fog
And a fine rain in the trees,
huge plane leaves stuck on the sidewalks
Throughout the Sforza gardens,
Villa Guastalla calm as a ship
through the part-brown park and the mist.
The Japanese say we live in twelve pictures thrown from the floating world,
Where sin is a ladder to heaven.
Or has been. Or can be.
First light in the east last light in the west and us in between,
Lives marginal at best
and marginally brought to bear.
But that’s okay, given the star-struck alternative.
Remember us in the ghost hour remember us in our need.
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