Crows crouched
on Southern Crosses
erected by some other
crazy christian

whose pyrrhic vision
told him to paint
the two smaller ones blue
and the center one gold

whose base is now rotten
and leaning toward
the theif who didn't
repent

Richard of St. Victor's
dark and fluttering souls
held fast
to this earth
by the weightless
gravity of sin

— Raymond P. Hammond