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
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
Granite Gothic replica
double-towered facade
Majestic horizon forever gone
People who still remember it
go one by one
the reservoir, the reservation beyond
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
