Viewing on my computer in 3D

one of Katharine’s paintings

of some suspended disembodied

skeletal android being swarmed by…

Occasionally I stray

into strange spaces,

Where things already are ongoing

in high swing…

I knocked you down repeatedly,

I spit in your saintly face.

At times I exposed you

to the scorn of public disgrace…

This winter comes to my town,

Trampling on souls with boots.

This winter comes to my street,

Straitjacketing trees with ice…

Why does the vampire bat

drink my bloody things?

There should be

pygmy bats…

I am the breath of Saint John.

Live.

My face is a prayer.

See me…

Zeus spoke to Hector urging him

to fight harder

calling him coward again and again

sending His messenger Iris…

I have learned the tongues

of many races of man

And eaten them too.

So if I’m to die here in this new world…

Standing on the bridge of the ship,

A Class-A Tactical cruiser,

Floating in the vacuum,

She laughs…

The poet stared down

from his station in ozone

above the Sierras, detected

her S.O.S. telepathically…