Who Stays Whole (draft)

One little brother and another little brother

one rapacious for holiness one 

furtive quiet and contained with duty 

to relieve the stains of learned original 

sin as explained retained detained within 

the body and the mind the notes of staves 

sung well hung unto the kapellmeister 

to the tune of instrumental lungs 

one little baritone and another 

mid-rise stung one releasing tongued quarter tones

eighth tones half tones in one sweeping measured 

oral reign of spun syllabic gesture 

far flung into the tubular inflection 

of one little brother and another 

silent one in keeping to his little self still young