Climbing the pyramid of glass

along the electricity of light

in every concrete seam.

Eyes across the desert

to the ocean surf

tossing and gleaming.

Veins in their symmetry

of ripped flesh

on a cast of bones

above the careful knife

that destroys all.

Blood covering the stone

and deceitful cloth

the altar's peak

sledge hammered and stale

with the unmoving moment

of gunpoint time

saddled moon and barbed wire car

all riding to the hollow end.