The night-locked dusk clicked shut.The cool air rose like a stone.At last, my voices echoed through the high,miraculous chamber. And the iconographycut me, breathlesssymmetry.This kingdomis fraught with the skeptical the stem before the gold-bloomed leafwhose colorthe cathedral imitates.The dusky grove. The dragon andthe greyhound, caught in their infinite chasethrough the
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the greyhound, caught in their infinite chase
through the shaded vaults
when we, too, rise
I am mad with desire.
For what? Today, I collapsed at the endless hem
of His great robes
and prayed, but could only find myself repeating
Let me do better,
Let me be with You,
Let me do better by You,
and
When I left, I saw those sallow panels of the West Window, finally,
for their dim bone-whiteness,
an angel descended
and, one by one, kissed my many eyes.