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Distemper

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Looking into the glassy crucifix of water.         slits of rock form stigmata across creviced limestone -         green pools with an occasional fish passing         air bubbles to the top         the eerie night crumbling under shafts of starlight         with the smell of hemlock pods & cedar bringing         nard and precious stone within         crowns of natural thorn -         this body of muskeg pressed onto         aromatic herbs then borne away         along the road to a wooded Calvary and         the sense of Christ         in that light at dawn.

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