Stairs & rites
not for the foot
The building
thinks
Angular rock
Green skyscraper
Black ziggurat
Miniature
of time
Made
into altar
Invention
of the night
Sprouting
at dawn
Carved rock
praying
as it buds
Seeking the seed
to sprout!
Saliva
in torrents
Cooling waterfall
You redeem your field
Salt head
Stream
of lights
Double reflection
Stone
& water
The same
sprouting
Vicuña, Cecilia. “Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water”. Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992. p. 129, 131. Translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine.