Zion in my Front Lawn

Silver Mount Zion and her Auburn Hair

When I was a child

Silver Mount Zion sat in my front yard

Between the highway and my small home

Mount Zion: the most holy item to the Queen

Of earth.

For on the first day of my love's life

Stella, she saw nothing but my tree

Where two boards sat on two branches

Held up by three nails

And I, on my first day of life

Saw nothing but the color red

Of her childhood blanket

Adam, the King who sees red

Was and is me

And when I met Stella

At my age of five

And her of three

We both came in our pants

Without touching, by each others presence

And I walked away and

Repeated to myself

“I saw the one. I saw the one.”

Calling back to ten thousand lives ago

When Stella was cut in half by the genitals

By an evil man, with a saw, and in the aftermath

I killed myself, unable to live without her

And God did not believe

God did not believe,

That I did not do it.

I then became eternally untouchable

In cast.

And after I committed suicide

I met my eternal sin

Suicide.

And I could never, condemned by God

Kill myself ever again.

And so Silver Mount Zion

Sat in the ditch of my front yard

Between my ugly house and

The highway.

It was cut down when I was ten

And my dad wrapped Christmas lights

Around the stump

And it became our Christmas Stump

And many years later, two months

Ago.

I met Stella for the first time again

In a prison asylum.

And the color red

And the holy tree

And her red, red hair.

And her red, red hair.