Genuflect and Shield Me

Genuflect and shield me

From instruments and doubts that silk

Beyond the hemlock indecision,

Prosper me and rejoice

Over my wakeful inside

Outs and secret

Time

When

Nothing matters except the downward

Shiny figures weeping in the joys of

Thy deeper nightward watch.

Intensity and separateness have

Haunted all our days, and did

We not fear the clouds

And reckoning when the sea had

Gathered itself together.

Only once was the ghost of teaching

Children harried on the stone and

Oozed upon the witless

Spendthrift

Sages

Who

Incorporate the paradise offending

And swaggering their own invincible

Invective. In the secret time when

Nothing matters come with me to

Eden leave behind the strange

Instructed longings for

Calumny, take to the burning

Sea and wishful instead for the

Selfsame misread star and

Bleeding, never mind the farewell

Stop the vicarage houses veils

The blissful enter into

Oblivion and trail their

Final visions on a

Separate

Rhyme

Which

Insinuates the forever rock of

Mourning.