Bayou Sonnet1/25/2017 I stroll on the edge of the water and search
For bodies of lovers and wisdom and time The waves are the pews and the bayou, my church Opacity such that it must be divine I dare not approach and disturb its old hymn Its shoreline the bound’ry of life and demise For God knows the trouble I’ve seen and the sin And on every altar a sacrifice lies Instead I just walk and I cast out my gaze For something as ancient as feeling and fire And think of the heaven-like hell in the waves Of beauty and sorrow and pain and desire And out in the distance walk all of God’s sheep With bodies as faceless as those in the deep
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