Commentary on Religion

i.

a colony mutilated

the ant's limbs into loose prayer;

thanking god for the transformation.

 

ii.

it is gilded,

therefore it is gold.

 

iii.

a candle to Winter.

 

iv.

[he has risen a

man, amen a

man amen;

 

v.

christmas lights

glow stale rising through

layers of basement,

gathering millennia.]

 

vi.

[the clockmaker

made me ttssick tttock

rusted gears[

 

vii.

by the seventh day

god had finished the work

he had been doing;

so on the seventh day

he resorted to apathy.

 

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