Tumulus; Oh God, The, Definitive Article

Tumulus; Oh God, The, Definitive Article
by nicolas james hampton
Though you felt him, ( ___,)
details of his thumbprint were a gravel
before his touch. ( ___,) you held his fingers
responsible for their ranges,
knew them as a result
of hard granite
macerating beneath, and unearthed
him down there. ( __e,) you sensed him pulling hot
blood from a dead rock,
& if a world wasn’t
there, then a hand could
touch ( _he,) mound
without decimation, ( _he,) without erosion,
without an apparition,
without his desire
but a world is, (the,) and you let him
touch it,
though he won’t
know It, (The,) from a dead rock.