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THE BOOK OF REVELATION

 

only takes a moment.

Not one flower of paradise has been hidden from your eyes.

Night tucked inside night.  Inside fold inside.

Children behind fluttering curtains asleep.  Sound.

The way water over sunlit rocks looks.

All the channels all the time.

The long iris stalk stands upright, its bearded lips in the moonless rain.

You cannot cross you cannot cross back.

Naked, they shot them at dawn.

No, beside the river, tied to tires, set afloat and aflame.

Not one flower of paradise.



 


Originally published in Hayden's Ferry Review.
Reprinted at Verse Daily.
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  • *
  • Poems
    • from Body of the World >
      • Accident
      • Arc
      • John 3:16
      • Hologram
      • Original Sin
      • Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude
      • Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls
      • (more)
    • from Nude Descending an Empire >
      • The Book of Endings
      • Jataka Tales
      • The Book of Poetry
      • Celebration in Autumn
      • Testimony
      • Madagascar
      • America: An Autobiography
      • Slugs Mating
      • American Mystic
      • The Book of Revelation
      • Home
      • (more)
    • from The Book of Fools >
      • [First Taxi]
      • [Friend]
    • New Poems >
      • Postcards from Babel
      • Poem in Search of an Ending
      • Animation
  • Books
    • Nude Descending an Empire
    • Body of the World
    • The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse
  • About
    • Bio
    • Mailing List
  • Contact