They Will Sew the Blue Sail

Attenuated Sonnet | Michele Glazer

The dogs in Europe all have diarrhea. Their shit is loose sienna.

Pigeons stationed on wires swoop low & cluster

over spilt food & what they look for in this florid heat

            I’m after.

            I let you handle the map, I’ll handle the gargoyles.

The sun transfixes

onto the scuffed floor inside the church geometries

of imperfection past glassmakers cast,

all of it shimmering past possession. Everywhere

I look I see through

beauty, at death. Pigeons, & pigeons.

My father: conjure him.