Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

*Inspired by the 1944 triptych painting by Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon.

I.

sacrum bone,

crematory pyramid--

shramming orange.

passion's seat jumped on--

the ground giving

way, the world

disrobed.

donned at the overlook...

a most humble service

gathers.

II.

examining upside down,

the base of a table--

while blindfolded with

a shroud.

whose two right legs

offer an incomplete

rocker.

radial urgency.

there shall be no succor,

the cup shall not

be passed.

III.

the musculature of

survival, taking the

form of wilderness.

standing on, and in

place of an animal hide rug--

whose dead hair's rising

in response to a voiced

agony.

it is finished.