Otherwise all would be god -- The stone is worldless – Fiat -- What shall I cry? -- The animal is poor in the world -- The line -- The spirit is bone – Refrain – America -- The box – Substantial -- Water in water -- Annunciation of the self-enclosed god -- The spirit is thrown – Retablo -- Litany for a table of immovable feasts -- Our mother of rivers is made our perpetual hanging garden -- And when the soul saw the father in the yard -- So, though the soul could not see itself -- The wound was a source -- And when the father’s pickup steered into the pall of dust -- While love was made in likeness -- Then the soul lost sight of the father too -- So how is it done -- Therein: suspension, being, passage, time -- All the faint rasping sounds together became a breath -- Cottonwoods, river -- Rain falls in the mind, assorted & inexact -- Our father brought home stone -- World-making: foundations of a marvelous science -- The wall -- The spirit is blood from a stone.