Of course

 

The very things we don’t require now

are departments,

directives,

diatribes.

 

We need to just be left alone.

 

Of course,

if we’d just been left alone

we wouldn’t be here now

would we?

 

 

 

 

 

On giving up the ghost

 

Heaven

looks over us with pity

for none of us are right about

anything at all.

 

Hell

is jealous of us

for we’re all as innocent as lambs.

 

None of us should hold the power

and no one ever truly has.

 

In the image of God,

we suffer on crosses instead

 

and see the sense

in giving up the ghost

 

and letting go…

 

 

 

 

 

Or three

 

The feather spark of a woman

that favours you

on first occasion:

 

like an eyelash,

like creation.

 

She isn’t hit by your sickness.

She isn’t cut by your sins.

The blood flows safe and warm beneath the skin.

 

Enjoy, my brothers and sisters,

when sun, moon and holy whisper

go swinging off sycamore trees

 

and time is on our side

for a second or three.