"The Mayan Books" is a poem by Australian poet A. D.
[1] It was first published in the poet's collection Orpheus in 1991, and later in other Australian poetry anthologies.
The poem recounts the sin of Archbishop Diego de Landa of Yucatán who gathered together a large pile of Mayan books and burned the lot.
In heaven he looks toward God but God never loks at him.
In his commentary on the poem in 60 Classic Australian Poems Geoff Page noted that poems like this "have a way of floating into and out of focus, according to how much we seem to need them.".