skipping civil ceremony

new words
on old wood
found their way

from a medium and his silent wife.
what does spouse mean
in their clean house...
it's suspect that she forgets to dust the books
with the quotes
about perfection.

someone should have read to you
those
lectures from hell
about invisible things.
and whispering thread, and the voices
we heed for the better of all.

now i know that you hid
behind the man...
in the birthing brine,
when you claimed to shiver
in reverence of twilight
but i think i might be on to something...
the night means little,
even less than friendship or benevolence
to the simple.

there are things worse
than what you have heard
and assumed and rallied scripture against.

life is larger than you may believe...
and this earth we stand on?
it is round.
and that night you look up into,
with hollow eyes and requiem tongues,
people have visited!
and found it delightful
and an inspiration to do better.