Their Rosary Prayers

She willed in tempered frosts
    that hidden,
        without consternation 
the pew should call his name
Pale pink shadow,
   of hushed cheek
 
Knowing her rose in origin,
     and passages through,
a shameful pride began his edifice,
     as her joys sculpted his rituals
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