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