O Mary Mother--

Rescue my heart
heart whose beat finds no echo

my steep
uttermost

my bus-stop dollar

finds itself ignored
mostly

but seeping through your white breast-garment rose-
red blood

rescue me Dolorosa
with your tears

(heart covering heart)


This poem tries to use a prayer syntax derived from Geri Duran's poem, "O heartless--.) The following is probably a better one:


O Pibroch--

drone me a drone on the D chanter,

chanter that can articulate

discreet tones

of a mode

(perchance mixolydian).

articulate tongue-stones, singing

bones

soon pulverized, blown

to the winds

drone it anyway

squawk like hell

(and make my ears buzz)