Priest black, a sleeve of shoulders
up to the night, like a little screw,
eye wanders left to right,
right up and black over,
green as wide as any limbs,
new shoes, a baptism.
New hat with a brim
fierce as an eclipse.
You could count all of your bones
under such a dress.
Mary sitting stiff as uncarved wood,
holding the body of her son, Jesus.
Heaven is afoot,
dangling angles.
Scraps of angles,
up to three children
at once, and angles cannot blunt
the gravity of one fall.
credits
from A Green Thousand,
released January 1, 2013
Megan Conlon - voices, RS - guitars
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