JANE LEWTY





PRAYER


is how wings look, their terrifying stretch
their miniscule blood–shift

and that I should (almost) always be smiling.
It is still a beginning, after all.

I toss opaque globes in a general
direction; they neatly roll back

Clouded further. Where am I
transcending to? Am I

being uploaded? I was angling
for a phone call re:

paranoia. In answer to a
question about offending pains,

well, they say, time heals and saves.
What about your acropolis, with its

inner rooms to glide through–
an agate–and–gold throne in the feast hall.

Why so sad? Has the
painfully–constructed sewage system

failed again? Does the four
–spoked chariot need a new battery?

Is the new coffee from Trader Joe's
a deep, cavernous disappointment?

Or: do you need your grounds
attended to (your home, your house, your grounds)

by a sculpted being
its wings ornate and rigid. We already have a problem:

the legendary automata
were designed to never age, but this PSM

has a base frame from the 1970s.
Regardless, 'devotional mode' unlocks a sleeping function.

And I will be deviating

far from factory settings. Let's observe
the separation of earth
and the waters.






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