Ordo

When I fear silence
I am born in a convent

No father for one hundred mothers
Needed cold when I was gone

When I was gone
A patchwork intelligence

When I was a patchwork
The “I”s is unfolding

When I was him
Born to a thousand mothers

When I feared silence
I am silent

The guffaws of asphalt the faultline moans
I am this I am that

My mothers sing Ordo Virtutum
I am bound on the flagstone

Voicless among the angels
Heartless among the stones.