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SUNDAY PRAYER, clxvii
time & time again
the summer comes, a flower in a glass
a half-pretty doomed womb
of cartoon joy and love ploys
o loverboy! their rubic's cubes
are so eager to be solved by you
their mountains birthing mountains
hanging from your bitter fountain i am i am
firing blanks at the moon
time & sublime time again
with candied teeth a gray red
fed a thousand wines, dining good old death
who pulls the petals from the flower
who checks off all cities, all sins
til she's shaved thin the rose's neck,
and bids me sign & date the granite check
but you're a birthday,
deep with the dayshine
dusk to a moonbreak,
the dust of keepsakes
time & time again, i am i am
das - salt lake city, utah, u.s.a.