hymn 3

 

how a sister colored sisters all the faces purple, a sister
fell scratching  •  a ring  •  a sister drank burgundy sister
found jesus first  •  communion tucked in pin curls a little
white dress meaning, maidens remember the peppers

 

trucked in the gravel plains  •  forgetting a mother
tongue upon entry, nana only brown, only sound a dark
memory, summer but a name is a garden need nurture
vegetation of variable forms, density  •  a guardian is an olive

 

mama  •  a wimpled one superior leading sisters down alleys
flanked, garages and maples to a young saint gabriel’s then
introducing a baby valley, lichens an exception in the sewing
room listen for furniture stir a woman’s house offers a range

 

of organisms, many endemic  •  a curtain separates two
or more gentle sloping  •  eggplants sallow, a vestige
the playground bell ring the pain pink these landscapes
waterholes  •  deny harvest fruits harden in winter

 

 

hymn 3


carried • a modified form of a woman bound
muttering what matter in nest built to please
neglect • self doubt mother logic run backwards
run rampant • a little white dress fooled

into a multitude of perfect • squares overlapping
stitch affection granted • conditionally each time she
tries losing • every desert fingers draw • this dry this
cold might children withdraw • a mother only

brown only sound a mother touch extremely
dry, extremely cold, how from it all can this
much be taken? or left rendering certain a mistake
is a vestige of inexplicable shallows • the skeleton

and wide, flat as most arable land as prayer, recitation
like a mother tongue ingrained • one handmaid
the other goddess, really, entice and charm hold
lock fastened, where servant god collide • divide call it dulia