The Ghost of Notre-Dame Haunts the Holy Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ghost of Notre Dame

Haunts the Holy Week

My photo of candles years ago

votive chaos theory

demons and prophets

a vertical lobster

from the Cathedral façade

Adam and Eve enstoned

kaleidoscopic window

Reliquary of the Crown of Thorns

Roman noir of a young couple

there at night so far from home

pages flipping in the wind

absorb flame memory smoke

Time spent itself

in la Place de Notre Dame

architectural l'horlage

maze inside the Consiergerie

Ste Chapelle labyrinth of jewels

St Severin metaphysical puzzle box

St Julien le Pauvre secret heart

of the Latin quarter

secrets of the Rue Git-le-coeur

Critical mass of the Holy Ghost
Novena at Notre Dame

How high heaven from here

Filigree spire infused in flame

the gargoyles recoil

Nineteenth century addition implodes

Singed palms of Christ's entryway

leads to actual mental Jerusalem

Fire in the medieval forest above

Eerie parallel to Notre Dame church

Fall River Massachusetts

burned to collapse in the early eighties

when a workman's torch

ignited the roof during renovation
Granite Gothic replica
double-towered facade

Majestic horizon forever gone

People who still remember it
go one by one
 the reservoir, the reservation beyond

the Freetown woods

All as well do go

It won't be water

the fire next time

Black hole at the center

 la Voie Lactee

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 2019