The Urn: The Circumstance

THE CIRCUMSTANCE

To Xochipilli

The anointed stone, the coruscated crown,

The drastic throne, the

Desperate sweet eyepit-basins of a bloody foreign clown-

Couched on bloody basins, floating bone

Of a dismounted people . . .

If you could buy the stones,

Display the stumbling bones,

Urging your unsuspecting

Shins, sus-

Taining nothing in time, but more and more of Time

Mercurially might add, but would

Substract and concentrate . . . If you

Could drink the sun as did and does

Xochipilli-as they who've

Gone have done, as they

Who've done . . . A god of flowers in statued

Stone . . . of love-

If you could die, then starve, who live

Thereafter, stronger than death smiles in flowering stone-

You could stop time, give florescent

Time a longer answer back (shave lightning,

Possess in halo full the winds) of time

A longer answer force, more enduring answer

As they did-and have done . . .