Informant38

Tomaz Salamun (see also Mary Beth O'Connor)
in Massachusetts Review
GRACE

About God real quick
he never said ampleness
never rosemary
never peaceable
and if there were ants in the corners
there were ants in the corners


let's say the dust
where should it fall
toward down or toward sideways
or should it be the roots
all these things God solves real slow


sometimes he says ARCHAIC
but nobody budges
nobody wakes up
in fact no one wakes up
sometimes he says we killed carriers of flowers
and buys bright paper
I bought bright paper he says
we killed carriers of flowers
and loads


a little barque floats on the sea
trees bend, something falls
it makes a big splash


you are the light of the world
a city on the hill cannot hide