(gospel escapes from itself in red attire

it needs no aid from you or me)

is that a snake in the stars, 

winking with pointed beckoning

at us to come nearer but not look closely?

diamond eye blind diamond eye -

it sniffs through its intergalactic nose

and cannot smell, though it has woven itself

into the scent of the stars and moves

blindly north. words appear like poppies,

helplessly they go, bleeding a mouthy river that

runs in one direction, not quite parallel

but very deeply parallax and all relax - black hole down