Sequoia

            Bent limbs

            Bleeding

Over a wire fence

Sequoia

            War canoes

            Cast-iron rifles

            Fox furs

            Painted with the gray shade

            Of time

Sequoia

            You dared to take heaven

            In your grasp

Sequoia

            And so you drank

            The oil of their wrath

Sequoia

            Roots rotting

            In the crude rainbow

            Of man

Sequoia

            You stand

            With heaven

forever

In your hands

Sequoia

            Your womb

            Is a desert

Sequoia

            Your feet

            Are brass

Sequoia

            Your hands

            Sewn together

            In prayer

            In prayer

            Sewn together

            Your hands

Sequoia

            Are brass

            Your feet

Sequoia

            Is a desert

            Your womb

Sequoia

In your hands

forever

            With heaven

            You stand

Sequoia

            Of man

            In the crude rainbow

            Roots rotting

Sequoia

            The oil of their wrath

            And so you drank

Sequoia

            In your grasp

            You dared to take heaven

Sequoia

            Of time

            Painted with the gray shade

            Fox furs

            Cast-iron rifles

            War canoes

Sequoia

            Over a wire fence

            Bleeding

            Bent limbs

Sequoia

July 2019 – Jackson Reitz