-psalms 1, 2, and 3

1:    the shingle shall be tacked with its deadly

equation in asbestos lying in wait. 

2:    to travel north will become to travel down—

"down north" in their manner of speaking.

3:    it shall come to pass that in the shadow of its Cathedral,

the Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes will tend its flock

until the spit of the weld and its consequence of fire,

to descend thereupon to the ash of its own affirmation:
 
"for dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return."

  Burned by fire, 5/11/1982 / Fall River