Anne Waldman, p.2



ALICE'S STREET NEAR THE PALACE

   il supplizio dell'ebreo

       intended as corner of coroner's
 religious exasperation

   or man going to execution

        Rivette's Joan The Maid burns
 with her paper hat on: heretique

& what were the crimes?
warned in the forewarned
       repository not to hear voices
or afternoon ablutions

       thwarted tradition?
   no, but a sense of the absolute

   palace keeps byzantine grace
         mute chambers squawk
  for recognition

& an aligned notice for goblets
             shimmers by the door

     altars go high for the trance-stone

altare in pietra dura you see them there
      chomping at the bit

        drink, drink me.