1.
A bit
Of rhetoric
To round out
Some argument
The architect
Set in stone
And if not,
Unspeakable clot
To stopper
The glottis
And suffocate
The heart
Of internal workings

 

2.
A perturbation
Of brick in brick
Or structure
Swallowing solid structure
Not the slow fluid slurry
Of glass or flow
In and out
Of sun and incandescent
Light



3.
Stele erected
In memory of
The mercurial
Creature
Of light and air
Guide
And conductor
Of souls
Who dwell
On either side
The wall divides,
Or icon
So engrossed
By stylized robes
The frame
Unloads
Only itself

 


4.
An amphibious
Ornament
Nonexistent
In the mind
Of God,
Neither portal
Nor wall
The bricked window’s
Limbo
Hangs every passer-by
Who looks
Across its sill
Or fails
To look at all.

     
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