American Valentine

Not the wax
but the wick
not the wick
but the flame
not the flame
but the wick
not the wick
but the wax
in the 13th century
the dogma of
the trinity grasped
by school-boys
with ascending and
descending angels
like the mermaids
Columbus grasped
America always known
then forgotten about
then remembered again
whole nations murdered
when remembered
by Trinitarians.