A Final Recap
A prayer to
the building that held me
with yellowed envelopes
lining the walls of a mystery
fluttering in verdant fans
A collage above a settee
Virgin print and egg tempera
Feathers dancing around a padded cell
The cold silver slab
where you blessed me
Cut pages + memento mori
The maze laid out below a saint. I know
it was you.
I know your thimble
full of salt.
All the wayward shrines
that once were graves
Stealing candy
Stealing glances from behind a piano
Sharps and flats
Clocks and metronomes
count the loop back
Back to you
Black bird to you
I will not return
back to you
Back to your
coffin draped in gospels
and wrapped in thread
Music boxes and
tiny cathedrals
singing broken notes
Like the sound of my fingers
flowing over metal waves
following down
the narrow path
into the dark.
