Flower Conroy

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To Enter This Household of Everlasting
 
 
Step into this torpedo
of light you
whom hides
face with a scarf        
of dyed silk.
 
Oversized bloom
tucked behind
the pincushion
of your ear.
Oversized eyes wide
between lashes.
 
As you drink in this world.
As you drink of this world.
 
Parched
little animal,
thirsty little darling.
 
Kneel beside me
upon this polished
teakwood pew.  Unfix
your hair from its
chopsticks & ribbons,
its opal barrettes.
Open your overdone
gumdrop lips.
 
This is the wafer.
The bread the body.
Deliverance’s & forgive-
ness’s fortune cookie.
 
Ingest its promise.
Imbued with meaning.
Enter empty into
the nectar & meal
of this sterilized light.
Accommodating at last.                                
Barbaric at first.