HEAVEN’S GATE
From the 2024 Collection "Sixteen Odes From a Toad's Repose"
A Sacred Site
is the ultimate emblem,
a trophy of the horizon’s finitude.
No better a final gate,
no more wiser a runway,
Holiness is natural
and the site is the fertility
and the spawn is
that all offspring become
a nascent demiurge—
So yield and bow
because the streets
are paved with Gold
and every person
has a halo of Gold,
and the delicate quality of life,
it’s composition like sand,
endures forever,
and what may plague you,
tantalize you, both are
safe with the jester.
From the 2024 Collection "Sixteen Odes From a Toad's Repose" - Sixteen poems written in a five day period after two years hiatus.
