BELIEVE

BELIEVE

hands up
all who
   need a roof, require shelter,

hands
steepled together
can be a roof, a church, and
you don’t need
to be
William Blake
to see it

book, far book,
epic novel
or Bible
    can
lend itself to
the very idea of a cathedral
doing the best job imaginable

which idea
we might well lean into
squatting under
this tree

not the safesr place to be
considering the deadly
accuracy of
the sky’s static
electricity

even as
a great religion seems
about to
be born
and then instantly
take root

or perhaps
     I indeed misread the sign
and should be
talking revolution

not exactly
a binary opposition, just
a matter of what you
believe
and how you frame something.