Stained Glass

Loss of sand
is gain of glass;
a soft, warm comfort
to feet, to hands,
fired to molasses
against the light;
cold to hand,
warm to eye -
in pieces,
a dangerous fragility.

In this pew,
this church,
this life,
so it is with your Christ,
a soft, enduring ground
to register the imprint of his time -
transformed by fire
to subsequent light,
affirmed by day,
tested by night.



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