Pampas Grass in Gadroon Winds

Shame is sealed into bones with dexterous winds
and blind-man compasses, solvent and graceful
she bows the tip to bonding matter, effacement,
duress in salutary sweetbriers
stolen from window panes
from grass tattered curtains,
from lower hosts.

Commanded for the chaff
the wicked and the sublime
esteeming cordial winds
for flowers that may.

Their fathers are in curtains
inside brittle plantation lilies
inhibited by docile children,

by situations robbed of convention.

In Cana and Capernaum, children
sing, planish sortilege
read hymns
read psalms
for salvation
for broken windows
for fountains everlasting
from vines that exceed wisdom
and contempt.