PRAYER OF MY WILD GRANDFATHER

G-d, G-d, G-d, someone of my family

hated your love with such skill that you sang

to him, your private voice violating

his drum like a lost bee after pollen

in the brain. He gave you his children

opened on a table, and if a ram

ambled in the garden you whispered nothing

about that, nor held his killing hand.

It is no wonder fields and governments

rotted, for soon you gave him all your range,

drove all your love through that sting in his brain.

Nothing can flourish in your absence

except our faith that you are proved through him

who had his mind made mad and honey-combed.