Intercessions Of The Cloth
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How do you explainthe dissolution of despairthat instant it goes
as rain to a mist.
As being in a cathedralsearching the altar for your kindred
and giving up, despondent
his late rising from the choir stalls,his shepherding of the host,his lowered head in prayer,
as the stained glass windownear the exit, like a kaleidoscope
large, high and well-shook. [End Page 123]
Rebecca Kylie Law is an Australian poet, essayist and reviewer, currently completing her PhD at the University of Western Sydney. Her poetry publications include Offset, Lilies and Stars and The Arrow & The Lyre (Picaro Press, 2014), together with a forthcoming volume, In My Days and In My Sleep (Interactive Press, 2015). Her work has recently appeared in The Euroscientist Exine, The Afternoon Journal, The Lake, Poetry Pacific and The Australian. rbcclaw@gmail.com
