A miracle a bill of goods
A mechanical operation
Devised to bring about a desired effect
Perennial relapse into the umbral arms
When flights of birds augur therapeutically
And deformities express a significance beyond themselves
Taking symptoms and piercing with needles
Displaying images
Sacralizing the profane
Regulating the proportions
Of darkness and flickering light
Subjecting to ordeal
The catechumen of an incremental science
Auscultating the rain the highway sounds
The mysterious whine of buildings
Enacting the obscure observances
Of vestment ablution and hecatomb
The drone of unintelligible antiphony
That emerges from devices
And all things organic and inorganic