Monotheism
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Between you and me there’s a pyramid
Outside this window when we wake It seems to have gotten closer after every night Something planned by its builders To stupefy generations to the last I’ve joined a band of looters On a circuit of readings You’re off rolling a giant rock In front of your secret chamber Between you and me there’s only the foundation Left of a palace of troubled dimensions Where ceremonies competed with each other Until this moment of ease arrived Of buildings crumbled to be dreamed about In another time it was the opposite Suffocated in a tomb with a menagerie of mummified guests Pets bundled just as tightly in their comical masks The pleasures of the many concentrated in the one It was radical but failed to catch on With those of a new past |
Unknown maker, American. The Sphinx, Pyramid and Kneeling Camel, Cairo, Egypt., about 1910. Color Photomechanical. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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Armando Jaramillo Garcia was born in Colombia and raised in New York City. He graduated from Aviation High School and attended Hunter College. Prelude Books will publish his first collection of poetry, The Portable Man, in 2017. His work has also appeared recently in The Boston Review, Public Pool, Prelude, Horse Less Review, TYPO, inter|rupture, Pinwheel, and others.