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Before he was crucified Al-Hallaj said I am God
He understood the wine and the goblet as one
United with the hands that hold them
As if the Trinity were all things connected
The Creator manifest in the universe
The Savior immersed in human possibility
Infused and bound by the Holy Spirit
With everyone from all times in the past
And all times into the unknown future
Saved by the crucifixion that unites God
The world of nature and all of us

Rome the City of Man
Render unto Caesar...
For all the Roman gods
Justice was Caesar’s
Saint Augustine’s Rome
The City of God
Justice rendered to
Saint Peter’s church
In Medieval cities and towns
Churches towered over all else
Bells rang to begin and end days
You can tell the nature of a place
By the tallest building in town
Puritans hoped to build
Their City on the Hill
A new Eden’s capitol
Look around you
What do you see

Despite capitalist transgressions
The revolution aged like its
Rebels’ no longer taut bellies
With their raucous books
Become tired testaments
To unfulfilled miracles
Mired in moral turpitude
And self aggrandizement
The banality of bureaucracy
Unable to get out of the way
Of inevitable change
As institutional righteousness
Usurped socialist intention
To raise up the downtrodden
And subjugated them with
New and different chains

Gray Juneuary afternoon
Islands and bay indistinguishable
Tomatoes cringe in their cages
Bean seedlings turn tail
And scurry underground
On go hoodies and wool slippers
A summer’s day?

I wrote a poem
About a poet writing a poem
About a poet writing a poem
About a poet writing a poem
About a dream writing a poem
About a poet who wrote a poem