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ISSN: 1941-4137 |
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Volume Five Issue Two |
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Love Note to Notre Dame I never wanted to be Catholic, bound to stone or gargoyle, tied by reverence to reliquaries of holy bones. Never a virgin: cramps alone, no hard or warm thigh in my bed — yet I worshipped French words: Petit Pont like a thousand Gothic candelabra, heavenly verbs as jeweled as your rose window, light smacking the blackness of my small soul which longs to stroke birds at the Sunday marché — not far from your buttress and crest. That cries out for heaven, dark garden, la beauté céleste. |
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