a postmodern liturgy

/the first seal)

car wash funeral procession

the auction of prophetic voices

final breath of the faithful

gas station moon ritual

glow of a vending machine after midnight

the chair is also a witness

faint music from an unplugged radio

a mirror left in the forest

corridor without shadow

the last payphone in ohio

the city dies with its eyes open

time traveling forward at regular speed

paper lanterns dissolve into static

moths circling a dead satellite

electric silence

quiet collecting in the cattails

the orchard remembers everything

frost blooms across abandoned glass

bones of a tree glowing underwater