Pascua De Flores

Collapsed to pray,
sequestered sisters of the order
on their knees find God.

Their hunk in heaven
listens way cool;
His day is arranged
around their aches.

His immaculate Mommy
obeying Heisenberg
glitters and goes:
mostly in Mexico,

where would-be hidalgos
erected their Marys
to sanctify Indio bleeding.

Nunning, they kneel on usual
stone to Mother Mary and
her bearded boy both posed
in eternally sweet rictus.

Ben Passikoff

Ben Passikoff is a retired engineer. His poems have appeared in the Quarterly Review of Literature, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, Sarah Lawrence Review and Texas Review, Literal Latte, Orbis, and a truckload of other journals. His pursuits are poetry and survival.