THE VIRGIN
Overgrown chapel:
stepping over
dead light and wood scrap.
The sun, setting
over the ridge,
lingers on the
virgin,
just before the
headless child
sleeping in her arms
slips between her fingers
and shatters
on the empty altar
below.
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