Moon on Stained Glass

after angelus,                    when the stinging sun ebbs;
smothered by                  the cramoisy clouds—  fade into
aubergine,                    the Vespertine Saint
emerges                        in soft, Carmelite alb;          billowing—
crisp sheets dancing          across flying buttresses, and flooding
through hazy, florid oxides.                the nave—
the cosmic                                      elegist reaches from the 
galilee— pallid fingers that trace      a drooping, requiescat lily.
the rafters are                              sharp shadows dividing,
as the aspersory cools—          reflects  the niveous, sheer shape;
                                            an gleaming eidolon bathing in a gilded,
                                                    holy apparatus.