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To: webmaster@TempleFinder.com Subject: an update for the Pilgrims Guide When finally we reached the temple we found it collapsing, one brick at a time. Some walls have peeling paint; others have layers and layers of graffiti from years of pilgrims—some disappointed, some angry, some sad, and some clinging to their obsession and leaving flowers, photographs,… Read more

In neon. Sodium, electrons, gates, bricks in each wall, outlet, store, supermarket, chemist, cafe, tomato taste on the tongue, tiles, bright lighting, nonslip floor, theft- resistant toilet paper, sanitary disposal unit, fluids, chemicals, network of pipes, cables, denizens, their neurons, teeth, hearts, blood silent under body jewellery, belts, shirts, temporary tattoos, symbols, signs … Save… Read more

Listen. The air thin with one picked faun. His brother in the flower, pleading. The air thin. His sister on the stone, weeping. The tide in. The wind rising. Remember, sister. In the sanctuary. Roof of sunleaves, walls of stone, ivy on walls of stone. Trees. Humus on steps of stone. Bright graffiti. Flower bravely,… Read more

concrete poem: h i tit o n e … hands on Read more