Beecher’s Bible
- Build your speech
- piece by piece.
- Be precise—
- Be deliberate—
- Fortify
- the mortices,
- constrict
- your force-of-habit.
- Thy face,
- a stone tablet.
- Thy tongue,
- a steepled obelisk.
- Thy lungs
- lift
- in a ribbed basilica
- and fill
- w/ phrases
- of space.
- Thees and Thous
- will leaven the House,
- hackle the leaves
- of the trees.
- His silence
- is a gift
- from Heaven.
- Raise your voice
- to receive.