blue owls cry

to green-gray doves
in a duskbulged atmosphere

choristers intone
their fairflown psalmody

fresh quirks of lightchange
magnetize skyroving eyes
out of their drab habits

amid gnarled jargonings
a churchless monk attends
poised as quakenerved silver
anatomy alert and palpitant

he leans into annunciations
of starhush and moonlurk
a scared and sacred sentinel
in the cloister of nightchill