Erosion

From Erosion:
SAN SEPOLCRO


Jorie Graham


. . . . How clean the mind is,
holy grave. It is this girl by Piero della Francesca, unbuttoning her blue dress,
her mantle of weather,
to go into labor. Come, we can go in.
It is before the birth of god. No-one has risen yet to the museums, to the assembly line bodies and wings to the open air market. This is what the living do: go in.
It's a long way.
And the dress keeps opening from eternity to privacy, quickening.
Inside, at the heart,
is tragedy, the presen...