CONTEMPLATIVE FIRE

I burnt down the church

to be buried with the ashes;
pressed to diamond, light hardened
in subterranean depths.

I burnt down the church
for the unforseen emergence;
mother, child, dark signature of fire,
an intimate dark night.

I burnt down the church
to be black as an apocalypse,
resilient as a charred and tested job
laughing in the ruins.

I burnt down the church
to end resistance to endings;
breath the highest dome of heaven
here and now.