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Altar of the World

The altar of the world takes our sacrifice, each generation stacked like kindling on the stone slab, struck by lightning afire and burning as a

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Impossible Beauty

The color green in morning light, black wings against blue sky, leaves burned gold with the shock of a photograph. Her body rises through concrete,

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When Night Comes

The branches are bare after the scouring wind, just a few strays left against the blue sky in the slant of sunlight after the long

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The Wedding

Ireland, 1874 “We want you to marry us Father.” What cheek the priest thought sitting there with a baby in her lap, asking me to

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