Reformation of the Cut Makers

Block.     A block.     One
Beside another.     Distracted.
Distracting.     A block.
A block.     One atop
Another.      Oppressing.
Imprinted.     One,
A Monet squinting
At the other.     The Other,
A dot.     Arranged
As a puzzle.     A  photo
Of the mountains
From which another
Descended.     In multiples
Chipped from altars,
Holy men ascended
Whole.     Again,
A block.
A block.     Blocking out
The sun behind
A pyramid.     Always,
A scion to the light.
A render of lime.
A block.    Built
On the back
Of bones.     Encased
In them.     Refined
And reformed.     Else,
Then, is
Nothing but stone.

Disowned

Severed -
not cleanly but
by the stroke
of a pen:


piss and carbon,
the gall of it
culled from candles  


burnt on the roof
of my mouth      like devotion.


Heretic,    you, my maker,
my religion, …   And, the word


followed by words
scrawled out:
I am your father
       no more.