Saints walked up to your door
their hands hallow with light.
They have been ignoring prayers
and forgetting ways,
but tonight the atmosphere felt
of lavender and sage.
On your doorstep
saints paused
and searched for the direction of the light;
a light that from their hands had now faded.
Darkness instead ruptured through the night
so moving with it slowly
their hands performed
a silent dance.
From West
elusive shadows of their movements
deluded the sun back up
and the sun rotated
from there to East
for the first ever time.
Their senses immersed
saints tasted the illumination;
in its uncanniness
irresistibly bittersweet.
The night now smelt more powerfully
of lavender and sage
enough so for those saintless
to feel safe.
...
I had never seen more unholy saints
or a faster blooming sage.
May 2022,
Athens.
Photo: Mediterranean garden detail; SNFCC, 7 May 2022.
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