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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