Hecate

- dedicated to Nova Mana

Ripples_____pond
hematite black.
_____Water pierced
swallows itself back.

White walls of San Quentin
from this angle
a butcher's apron, vestal,
_____anticipating blood.

Air dances in sun
mummifies our lungs.
_____"What about that one?"
_____"Which one, sweetie?
That one?  That's a cypress."
_____"Could I climb it
to heaven?"

_____Sky blue as an eye
steps down concrete
to meet a girl.
_____She waits for pain

_____promised by God.