Congregation filing out
Church filling out, vestry feels tight
Rank with accidie rank and file
Snow outside Rankin Bass
Brass outside blackened railings
Bracken shades shy songbird’s wailing
Worms within but frost encasing
As between God and subject
Graves, gospels, altars all defiled, secret Father’s name reviled
Plucked from plots gyring skyward, saint-near and near-saints
Angelicube’s infinite sides plot every side plot story of story of glories
If poetry was easy, or naked, men would flock to it.
Alchemisland 
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