or alef-beta
for schwester katrei
(1989: the residents don't want their poisonous water
that we turn
& vanish
red-robed
cross-water
to transcend institutional frameworks
but what that
the leaves are
vanish
& old drunks
float, up turned
like strange euphorbium, lodestone & sulphur
1330
1270
1550
1545
1307 (the nuns of Umbria
1340
1544 (autonomous groups of the voluntary poor
cross water dryshod
walk a yard above ground