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