E is for Edifice
by Ashaki M. Jackson
E is for Edifice:
this structure of bones. Pelvic curves and vertebrae, requisite arches of its entrance.
Imagine lovers dripping off warm beds. Slack-jawed.
Estuary: mouths spilling into the tide, hosanna swelling the waters with pace –
a Sunday saunter.
E is for gathering: sharing one’s skin to the follicle. A meeting in the altar.
Excrement, collecting on itself meat and grain, patient for benediction.
Ear: a stooped man, limbs drawn into himself. A collection plate. A device to
fashion verse into prayer: hammer, anvil, stirrup.
E is for conversion between living and stillness. Eulogy, dirge, exhumation.
Trinity.
