St Francis and the Threads of Heaven
Silver motorway, leading out of his palms to the bronze clouds, slender as a virgins neck, solid as a Duce piano wire, Grave Giotto doloroso eyes, 15th century knowledge of pain, grey plangent agents of the angelGod, misericordia accord, fluent in grey water eyes
Ines
Based on the scene in Aguirre: The Wrath of God when Ines, the wife of the late Ursua, walks into the jungle in a trance and disappears forever
Ursua’s wife walks into the jungle.
Glid in horizontal transportation
raied in pale dawn
shoulders gleaming
face in Castillian conjugation
wedge-cut nose
and eyes like boats
pedestrian Remedios
her heaven a veldt excess
white heart,
white womb,
getting set to meet her emerald.
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