cementerio de santa maria magdalena de pazzis,
san juan, puerto rico; by night

death packed graveyard
with all its crosses
the most religious place in town

and all the frozen smiles of mary's
and apostles seem to say this one thing:
it doesn't really matter whether they did
the things you worry about doing
nothing moves here but the wilting flowers
the sound of the invisible sea is
like invisible lives
slid under ground
marked by pale piety were they have been seen last

any cricket on a swaying rose
drowns
the roaring sea