I suggest two short verses they can be part of one poem or two individual poems but each must include the following and in this order:
"bring me"
"would you be willing?"
doesn't matter how they fit into the verses (ie how many lines before or in between) just as long as they're in that order
"bring me"
"would you be willing?"
doesn't matter how they fit into the verses (ie how many lines before or in between) just as long as they're in that order
bring me to mountains
at the foot at early day
where I will kneel belly and knees like sack-clothed postulants
in dust
in sun
scorch skin
elbows burrow caked dirt, clay
only heat
only dry straw crackles but still no songs
of birds or angels
bramble afire I guess at mid-day
but my face I hide in thorns strewn at the foot of mountains
remove, it is said, sandals (due to the ground being holy).
will my skin touch holiness without intervention of synthetic material will it cry out will it transform will it dance with the angel in flames will my ear-drums listen to directions as they listen to synthetic voices
would I even, in this twenty-first century, understand how to move with only the body and even more, would I be willing
so, tell me, you who does not hide your face, would you be willing
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