temples

i don't know if i can have a place
without a temple.
collonaded & rectilinear, classy,
with a sea-foam view---
or a deep cave smelling of god's bones,
walls slippery with the shadows of the real.
either way, i don't know
if i can have a place without a temple:
it feels like a cardboard box
beneath a bridge, disinterested men
devouring found objects
without a glance of grace.
or an inch of sin.