Some other reverence.
(for H.M)

Loud and unruly
one officiating altar
everywhere at the same time.

this issue with an elder cricket
in typical fashion
jumped to a different branch.
i think i understood.

i started to worship my clothes
and jumped on the tree
the elder cricket scolded me:
“ship late”, he said, “note where.”

hitching clothes onto the river
i sang the rest of night
i asked the cricket:
is it that we are?

the elder cricket laughed true silence
he said, “if you sing i lied,”
and i think
i understood his aching.