Graves Of The Archangels

Rotted bones turn in earth:

while eye almighty gazes

Sealed behind its lid

bound by triangular coffin.

Rotted bones turn in the earth

beetles crawl undivine tissue

Soil shifts by movement

remnant seeks another ---

A predator's decayed wing

decorates foreign torso

A lion's claws, old horns of ox

& a manlike face rises monstrous

Rafael, Sandalfon, Michael, Uriel:

fourfold immortality rid of life

Debased in mortal graves

In a shameful uprising rejoined

Fourfold immortality rid of life,

fourfold renunciation of

fourfold blasphemy of death.

Denying their father once holy:

on arbitrary anatomy

This hideous mass rises

to replace