Cachet & Compassion
By Poetry Issue 109
Brother Baptiste once asked, How do I fit into my body? Brother Javier survived the plague.
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By Poetry Issue 80
A chain of blue-white chips mimics waves pleating around Christ’s body. On the western wall, another scene of owl-eyed saints drawing light unlike us. Despite centuries of votive smoke, the shining ranks of prophets gesture, elegant as sommeliers, toward mosaic scrolls and would have you consider the honeycombed geometry of paradise—dome, arch, and column— it’s…
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