In the crumbling church there’s a bone of a saint the Romans boiled in olive oil.   A coat hanger is a deformed cross that has outlived the golden vestments of the priests.   In her office on the hill the virgin’s ears intact in fake fur. She’ll stare forever at the very same stars that wheel above the world of the true night.   A forgotten swamp’s refilled to the level of the recalled banks and the swifts return each dusk to the paper map spread out candlelit, and illumined as their valley.   Adam Aitken’s memoir One Hundred […]

Another sun
appears on the side
of a building block
in a high rise district
West.
You watch it
burn down,
a lit wick
until its great glow

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