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A Moment

How white and blue together recollect us to the summer sky and the imagined swallows darting in exquisite geometry under the great domed space of the heavens, like the Basilica in Constantinople containing and giving space. And how you held me for a moment that was infinite and then you were gone like an angel fearing enchantment into some finite boundaried world

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 9/18/2017 3:18:00 PM
Very nice Katherine, I can feel the longing in your words and those last two lines sums it up beautifully. :)
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Katherine Braithwaite
Date: 10/1/2017 5:39:00 AM
Thank you so much, Phil.I've been ill and didn't see this comment.I think I was trying to copy the style of Rilke!!

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