Friday, October 16, 2009

written for the AIDS Wall in Portland, 1989

 In The Desert

A lizard with no tail
looked at me and its flicked tongue
said: Belief in punishment
is punishment, belief
in sin is sin.

Its eye like a black stone
said: Love is punished
terribly. Belief
is a dry torrent.
The fire I die in
flickers my bright wings.



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