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Votive Candles


They come to me in phrases

in couplets newly born

 

Screaming from the highest places

fitted but unworn

 

They come to me in dreamsleep

the moon recycled new

 

Time released in words immortal

—scratched into the pew

 

(The New Room: February, 2024)

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