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TUESDAY SERVICE / EL HIGUERAL
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66 TUESDAY SERVICE / EL HIGUERAL A cross in white chalk on cinderblock signals an altar. A child rolls himself asleep on cool cement. Narratives lilt and lull between these proper names: the Kidron Valley, Caiaphas, Simon Peter. You are not also one of his disciples, are you? A moth lands on the surplice of the seminarian. He plucks it off and goes on reading from the tattered guide. The generator fails—something about how heat can offer only so much energy to nights like this and in such sudden dark the trouble of admitting who you know. The trouble of making, for each fingered glance a face devoid of miracles a place where friends can see they’re on their own. The chairs are folded, candles snuffed. Around here the cocks crow all night long. Moths find places on the wall—light no longer the issue. ...