Catalyst for Ordination #1
       

it has been said
that in a vacuum—
which is to say,
a space without breath or              [without a little]
wind in it—
feathers and rocks
will fall, like humans,
at exactly the same rate.

and those who saw
it happen, they said                        [a little]
he fell like a spider—
something about the limbs,

they said, and they said                  [a little]

the word, 'carom'—
as if it applied to a human—

and manifest in that word
was the exact historic mixture
of hard sounds
battering soft—

and how beautiful,
his vestment fluttered—                [a little]

and what if—

if he survived?
would we—

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