For Sowing and Reaping

" For Sowing and Reaping "

by Suzán Jiván

For sowing and reaping
dating back
to fragile glass
as seeds scattered
by trowels
without explaining how
to set off clouds
of flowers under ground
as hard characters
break their backs
for aristocrats
in mine shafts
and porcelain factories
for figurines as last gasps
in ceramics and stoneware
wafting acid into someplace
palatial without hesitation
achieving salvation
by self-preservation
in coats of arms
molded into clay
portrayed as blatantly
sinful behavior
after mimicking saints
as often unstable
and wayward
in stone-housed scapes
scraped in between pavers
as insulators of praise
intoxicated by language
coming into play...