Securitization

In someone’s distant algorithm   

your mortgage was bundled to another’s   

—hedged—   

and stamped a new “security.”   

While it was swapped   

from investor to investor   

accruing fees and interest at each turn,   

your shadow   

partner   

defaulted   

and she abandoned her home.   

Someone uses your mortgage   

to leverage   

something   

far inside the starbursts of a server.   

Likewise marriage   

has   

no image—   

What’s a mortgage   

and who’s   

it engage   

on the other side of the firewall?   

*   

I witnessed a will   

which—the language invested with law   

godmothers the peacock’s   

fanned   

screech—   

would take care of the baby in the event of a   

[blesses herself]

It lives at the Cathedral   

and seems to be some kind of   

mascot for   

Baptisms   

*   

Securities:   

The future art you’ll make and its pleasure   

is hedged against the   

boys who died   

you fancied.