Friday, November 2, 2018

Conditional

If the body is a temple
with stain-glass eyes 

for sun and moon to light
up a story to help the body

die, then what should I care
of the flying buttresses

the steeple’s needle at the top 
of the spiral staircase 

why should it matter
what is there if what isn’t

is what was always where
you should have been?