I saw a twirl Of smoke, Zelophedad's daughters bringing Biscuits, kinsmen coming up the footpaths, Walking unguarded, one child holding its Mother's legs. With the Levitical priests, Moses enjoins the statutes, offering Holocausts on undressed stones, peace offerings, Eating and making merry before God. Then the Levites proclaim the twelve curses, Indistinguishable from our own time, After which the people answer amen. Sister rubs his feet with intimacy. Someone she loves walked on water, leaving No prints, no wake.
Snow piles the corners Of the rectory.
Days after nights I Dream, I sleepwalk, breathing, answering amen . After a Dream of Clare and Francis of Assisi Alone at the edge of the sea he sets the stone in place. Always the last stone the stone that has fallen the broken stone for which there is no use. His shoulders and the hills are a community now, when he walks his shadow loses itself in the grass. Comes to a crossroads and spins till his bones fall down in a heap.