torstai 28. joulukuuta 2017

FATHER, TALKING TO YOU

The video is nine months old; you had been dead
for twelve days when it was loaded up. Thunder
in the background, rain falling
as the archaeologist explains
the rainwater collection system, the stucco
panels at El Mirador, abandoned
for two millennia. The thunder,
the rain has no effect on him. He is dead
as I read from the comments,
dead and with the kings and the artisans
and the workers who build the pyramid.
Dead, like you, dead these eleven months.
The thunder and the rain,
the snow and the gray ashen sky
don't trouble the dead. They live
in the past, walk the causeways in the
shadows of the red pyramids.

28.12.2017

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