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Summer 1960 • Vol. XXII No. 3 • Poetry |

Augustine and Jericho

       The harsh memory
    Roused by the sculpted cherubim
         Fluting
       Passively on the cathedral wall above the
    Dance of Death dissolves, a child beneath the water.

       And her hair
    Billowing beneath the surface
         Haloes
       Like a Medieval tracery her passive face
    Her hair waving to the water’s somber measures.

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