APHORISMS TO DEATH

If the silence I hear were to turn
inside-out would it be a

boisterous Mardi Gras
or a deeper silence within

silence?

or none at all?

If the ocean were to turn
inside-out would it be

sky?

–all those stars sharks dolphins
shooting through the air?

If the earth were to turn
inside-out would the

dead walk among us as
nonchalantly as we walk now

among the seemingly living?

If we were to turn
inside-out

My God! Where would we be

in Your more spectacular

Reality!

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3/4/16 (from HOLY DOOR IN THE GROUND)

Categories: Poems