Perpetua's Apocrypha

by David Gonsalves

About one god.  About many.  About swimming and

the shore.  About your eyes when one god sings.  Bad

luck, white lies, eight and forty gates.  About the things

a god must do.  About a great unpolished tombstone.

About a thirsty horse.  About the streets of Charlottesville.

About the secret celebrations of the gods.  Bee hives and

blood loss.  Photography and failure.  About a grace note

lost in a cask of chaos.  About greed and a gray-eyed god.

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David Gonsalves should have been born in Nepal, but wasn't.  If, by chance, he is forced into exile, he will no doubt end up in Kingstown, St Vincent, his paternal grandfather's birthplace.