On the Occasion of Doubting
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I wake knowing nothing
Shower knowing less
Wash away the night

Swaddle in worn toweling
Stand in the casement
Windows wide to the city

After the storm a redolence
Notes of pavement, electricity, juniper

Air moves over wet skin
Transfigures
Becomes breath and flesh

This the great radiance
The grand luminosity

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August, 2017
Rue Boissy d’Anglas