Life's entirety - bled out across bed sheets A soul as dense as my morning coffee, still in its infancy She buried him beside the shed, beneath the Mulberry tree Storks brought no bundles to any doorstep that Summer For Winter murdered everything they had, and the next Autumn was very foreign
They named him Angelo, before or after - I am unsure Mother Mary was there, ghostly floating above his head The coffin didn't fit right, left it open She couldn't take another foot to holy grounds thereafter Not since God took away her son
She wrote it in a letter - before she bit the bullet *"No Church, No Gods, No Masterpieces This is sacrilegious"