Church in Winter

C Count your new tesserae for an old mosaic, C H hang bauble, bird and star in their high hush, H R ride dark and dream out for another year R I Image, Imago, Magister, Magi — I S shine softly, words, numinous as wet pebbles. S T Traveller, caught where shadow greets the light, T M mazed by this cold clench of stone, make firm M A A Crib, a Cross. Let Lux Aeterna A S seed your caught breath with a flock of candles S E exhaling their halos over the quick and dead D V Vale, Ave, Alpha, Omega. A E Ease a studded door for your spell-bound entry. Y

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