Xochiquetzal Candelaria

Memory From A Bone Sample

Flags in the winter sky,
you at the pillars

with your tongue in a glass box,
ashes settling on carts and props.

Or mammal carcasses hauled on board,
the subcutaneous fat spread around.

I finger a piece of your vestment
in the checkpoint basement.

Sparks in the dark, blue flicker of
book-filled cisterns: summer crops.

Xochiquetzal Candelaria

Posted on November 3, 2007 9:01 PM