Leviticus

greatness is of more

than its merest self composed -

‘tis vanity to

otherwise suppose!

each word an unsung silence

long presupposes

while playing Aaron

to an unspeaking Moses,

and moves through makeshift

and hidden hamlets

- for he who smashes the calf

destroys the tablets -

and the truth is leased

untermed on an unmarked plot:

the covenant is

kept or it is not

…from the splinters, from

the fragments

we seek

provisional commandments -

forms, forever

undeclared,

which lurk in unimagined

wake -

divinities

we, in passing, shared -

divinities

we, in chancing, make!

…and the ills of this world are

merely what we willed