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This is where they tore the vellum
to illuminate the slaughter of the lamb.And this is where they kept the pages blank
to illuminate the lambsthey did not choose.This is where they thinned the vellum to illuminate the shroud: and this is
where pausing
illuminates the absence of the body: which is an illumination of the resurrectionand of the ascension;and this is the illumination of the second coming:
of the gold-leafing, smoothing the tufted pages
of the beast. [End Page 105]
Christopher Bolin's book, Triage Songs, is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. His previous collection, Ascension Theory (U of Iowa P), was a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award finalist. He teaches writing at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, in Minnesota.
