Architecture

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 
'The stone that the builders rejected 
has become the cornerstone; 
this was the Lord's doing, 
and it is amazing in our eyes'?
- Mathew 21:42

Was it Frank Lloyd Wright who said it was

just as desirable to build a chicken house as it was

a cathedral, and if so did he ever build a coop

that changed the world like the churches of

Falling Water or Robie House or the Guggenheim

my guess is no and so I’d say go for cathedrals

but don’t venerate or praise their immaculateness

they are like the building up of your soul or

your self if you could construct your temple self

you’ll need a decent plot of ground and a

foundation and a cornerstone to get started

and then there it is staring at you like the dog:

no matter your effort or fortitude or refutation

every stone you select for your ego project

will have a chip or be out of plumb or fissured

and skew every door and archway and spire

just hurting the eyeball enough that you will labor

long days anguishing over the faults and the cracks

your heart will sorrow that you never got it right

this blueprint and fabricating that is you and your

cathedral of St. Perfection, until you are moved

to kiss the stone you rejected, yours and God’s

the mortal flaws and unfinished structural promises

and call the chicken house of your ramshackle life

a basilica of the divine, an architecture of the holy