"If You Built Something Very Big"

if you built something very big

very large

all dimensions blasted far out and away

as big as the engineering and construction and sweat capabilities

were capable of constructing

well

what would that mean I wonder

you look at the Olympeion in Akragas

O Megale Ellas

you folks were chomping at the bit

to build something so grand

and also chomping

to smash each other’s polis to pieces

at the drop of a hat

how does that all fit together

you think that the big column

twenty men holding hands needed just to circle around it

you think that in the end means something?

and you

baldacchino maker

when you twirled those giant columns

raised the Cathedra Petri so high up

on the mighty hands of those four fathers

and set the dove in the glass behind

is not what really matters

that light that light

that equally streams

over a single stone

far away?