Consider the lilies of the field:
Shot strict towards the light, every morning new.
Asiatics, Trumpets; Stargazer, Corvara, Martagon –
Each epithet an answer to the random, to the statistical residue.
Shot strict towards the light, every morning new,
Consider the bodies unearthed from the rubble, names written on limbs – Each epithet an answer to the random, to the statistical residue.
Others hang as fruit from the olive tree – tinsel, trim.
Consider the bodies unearthed from the rubble, names written on limbs.
Consider the body, broken for you and for the lilies of the field.
Others hang as fruit from the olive tree – tinsel, trim.
Children of God, perhaps, but the grief outlasts us, on and on.
Consider the body, broken for you and for the lilies of the field.
Asiatics, Trumpets; Stargazer, Corvara, Martagon – Children of God, perhaps, but the grief outlasts us, on and on.
Consider the lilies of the field.