Hey God

You want I should be a lamb

Of rising flesh

Of bitter salt

Of colored glass

God, say what

God damn

You want I should steal some bread

And break it down

Into a vision

A dirty cloud

God cum cloud

We here we

are cold, rapturous dust

It is beginning

No wasted thoughts

No screeching halt

No tidying up, no time at all

Here’s my claw where words cannot

Strain your eyes, love

Ponder clearly, ponder long

Why here now and for who it’s come and where it’s come, and where it’s gone and why we took it sitting down for so, so long

Strain your eyes, love

So you warble out

A sermon from which to hang your skin

So foggy damp to tempt you in

O, how I love that you love me

And how we love to see it breathe

A love that flexes petals over its leaves

A root of tributary weakened knees

And who is romance for, you plead

Strain your eyes

You, my friend today

But seer forever, babe

So very here to hold you, bent and burdened

In this space, we stare down

At those who deny the cloud

riddled with anger

And pox and things

The hearts they keep

In cupboards deep

with fascist beans

And other shapeless antiquities

I knew the moment you’d arrived

You’d disappeared from space and time

You’d prepped the cannons and raised the gate

And batter-rammed right through my heart

So I want this world for you to twist

To serve with sweaty open fist

To position gently on my cheek

As kisses do and kisses should

And you go cleaving through this wood

As if the wind caused hell to move

As if the ocean spray was you

As if your shout could clear this room

Strain your eyes

But you bring a noose tho

It’s not a noose so

It’s not a portal so

It won’t lead you away from pain

No

Strain your eyes

Just be still, my love

You’re all I’ve got