Deity

INVENTIONS

DEITY

In incense before gods He rises,

In the blue smoke of cigarettes He curls.

He dwells in the eyelids of the Buddha;

He is in the lotus.

The delicate tree-tops He sways.

Over the roofs of houses He stalks.

He is in the moon mirrored in a pool;

He is in the sky.

In the tails of peacocks He is a jewel;

In the garden of sun-flowers He is a rose.

He hangs above an adoration of candles.

He is on a cross.

EARTH

The earth is a moth

Circling about a lamp;

The earth is a cemetery

Of the dead.