faltering hearth fades the staunching but
it’s not –
watertight as such –
flicker flames a hard sell for sacrosanction

tendency surrendered to ghastly exhalants
vesta confidence in kin,
and bone, and flesh,
no more

soil bound & fired & tilled &
& tremorous still with Roilty
reveal babel brick embodies
divine asset in density alone

breath caught
and bottle sated
associated resting rates. in time
find purchase in separate anxieties