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See, See where Christ’s Blood Streams in the Firmament!



   


I meant
broom
bristles

or a
throat
cut or

a hand
full of
red rib-

bons
or some
spareribs

from
Hunan Wok
or a gun

melting
like sugar
in the mind’s

eye or
an urchin
with its test

open or
a fantasy
of luck

come and
save us
come and

save us
O Lord
we are

out of
luck and
could use

a hand
not getting
strand

dead 
in this
dimension




Robert Fernandez is the author of the poetry collections We Are Pharaoh, Pink Reef, and Scarecrow. He is co-translator of Azure, a translation of the work of Stéphane Mallarmé. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, A Public Space, Transition, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.