ask if his mother livesstory is she diedher corpse laid out on a bench carvedinto the rock ofa grave at the foot of the mount of olivesanother story is her body was takenfrom there upreunited with what had fled from dyingin jerusalem the church of the assumptionit’s said to be her tombstone Continue reading

ask every man for his namethe one who proveshis age by a historic injuryclosed in the palm of his handor by an ancient wound healedthrough the heel of his footwho proves his age by an oldscar speared blindly into the softflesh over his hip bylonginus whose bones long agobecame the moist dust in a fertile… Continue reading