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Buried in the Yard

from Nothing New in the West by J. Mamana

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During catechesis we’d seen the church
St. Philip Neri had preferred.

In labyrinths of sepulture and myrrh
we lay where San Sebastian was interred.

And dozing off I dreamt of you and I entwined,
and we were buried in the yard.

In cold uncaring dirt soothed by neither stars
nor aperture nor God.

Then he said don’t be salacious in deed.
The Levantine contorts himself to be believed.

In Jericho, he knows,
they’d bury three or more
beneath their beds in such a rite.

The Baader-Meinhof Gang were buried stacked in threes,
a triple grave commemorates the night they died,
and every offering is tripartite.

In Dolní Věstonice they say
the Trinity is still the rule.

The Levantine, he just spat out his gum
when told I’d studied this in school.

Well supposing it’s true,
that the right love is three not two—
But I love you.
And I’m supposed to lay some person who—?
Oh!

It buried me alive when you said you don’t love—
It buried me alive when you said you don’t Love Me Do.
I’m crying.

Morbidly, I know the dead don’t grieve.
Eternity is bunk,
but for only the lonely.
Oh!

They buried
one alive, faced down and arm in arm with
two faced up, the hand of
three across their crotch—
if only the Levantine had seen.
I’m dying.

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from Nothing New in the West, released January 4, 2019

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