RELIGION Poem: Stained Glass Heavens, by Richard Johnson

hail Mary Joseph Jesus
enameled white flesh faces
blue yellow gilt edged
clothing beneath golden halos

daylight bright colors shift
nighttime colors dull reflections
across a concrete floor
around the altar
through the pews
enclaves and confessionals

choral hymns to piping organ
congregants pray chant respond
as apostles and saints stare
hypnotically
seeming to listen for
footsteps behind them

coming and going
spectrums of color
light shifting grace
calling dream-like-heaven
through stained glass windows

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