In Memory of Mary Dyer
The martial music plays, bronzed alive
only the invisible songs survive
to fuse two sculptures in a final swoon
singing today’s melodies of hope and doom,
the Holy Spirit’s breath whispering between them
as Mary Dyer speaks to the Colonel’s men,
urging them to ascend to Jesus once again,
chanting songs of the beginning and the end
On Mixture (November 2018)
