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Extreme Unction T B

when blood ebbs cold 
           and threshold past
             consoled at last


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Categories: unction, allegory, allusion, blessing, death,
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Love's Extreme Unction

Love’s Extreme Unction
by Michael R. Burch

Lines composed during Jeremy’s first high school football game (he played tuba), while I watched his mother watch him.

Within the intimate chapels of her eyes—
devotions, meditations, reverence.
I find in them Love’s very residence
and hearing the ardent rapture of her sighs
I...

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Categories: unction, family, love, mom, mother,
Form: Verse