Brick
Red brick the universe,
red brick crumbled
sparrow crumbs now.
Red brick,
not lily-white limestone,
nor chalk,
white cliffs,
will tumble,
tugged down
by fierce tides
Red brick
and rough:
sand-paper,
the builder’s hands,
life- lines fortified,
unfettered brick dust.
Red brick,
heart, liver, lungs:
red holes, not black,
where red roses
flourish.
Red brick,
shattered into red
dust and this sun
a dwarf brick
shrinking in its
innocence.
Red bricks:
their dust become
gas giants,
Saturn’s rings,
useless wooden wagons
drawn up
in second hand westerns.
The huff and the puff:
brick shit houses,
these red brick
universes, built to last
way beyond
those dreaming spires,
that failed, will fail,
and still fail to inspire.
“Here endeth
the second lesson:
Book of Brick.”