Writing Equations
After the weeping ceases, the mind
bangs like a moth against the windowpane of logic:
what are the chances, after his body is torched,
his ashes scattered, dust to dust,
my father will ring my doorbell?
Resurrection: the word hides how it works,
the way the sconce in our living room
conceals a puzzle of tangled wires,
or like yards of purple entrails, I imagine,
hidden by lovely skin. I was 13 when my father
died; they told me resurrection was real, but not
yet; later. And my physics teacher forgot