Bethlehem

Dead White Marten

Bethlehem


out of a watery devotion 
in trinitious aspect awakened 
grants apple juice 
to the disgusting duke 
a strangely crying hereditary burden 

To the bloody chainment 
of lust impregnated by Thanes 
dancing clothespins darken 
a Rusty Mosaic 
upon quietly moving lips 

And the leaking difference 
in a permanently unloved wave 
Fades in purgatory 
of the little death 

man dies like his water 
And often Christ was buried 
in a hilarious communion 

May the once bent skull bone 
grow above the top of a lost knife