Sunday, June 7, 2020

Learned about the Moonlight Towers on Power Trip, a PBS series


Ben Sklar for The New York Times

This is the judgment-
that the light has come into the cosmos
and the people loved the darkness 
more than the light
because their works were evil
     John 3: 19
The Moonlight Tower Accuses

Some Austinites 
say it was the buzzing
like hundreds of murder hornets in assembly
each mandible moving at once
reporting on the success of that day’s slaughter

Other Austonians 
say it was the burning
carbon ash floating beyond a circle 
with a radius of fifteen hundred feet
never sure where on what or who it would catch

Bu I know the truth was
the blinding
light of a thousand candles arcing over the streets
revealing every definite detail
they wished to obfuscate

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