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Genuflection / erection in church.
Sacristy cloth / moth-eaten shroud.
Secret silence / sacred secretsaccumulate dust, aggravate the eye.
Incautious laughter after confession.
Benediction ------- fictional fear
Hidden faces ... Grace is a name,like Chastity, like Lucifer, like mine.
You took me through the window-stain,drowned in image, inscence, choir-refrainand slow ecstasy ------I'd embrace you if I only knew your name....
The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers :ice-cold statue -- rapture divine, unconscious eyes, the open mouth, the wound of love, the Lie.
You took me, gave me reasons forsaints and missals, vigils, all the moreholy martyrs -----I'd embrace you and walk through the one-way door...I'd embrace you, but it would be just another lie ----------( * which is to say that the statue is the inspiration, but not the Lie)
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