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Robyn Hunt

                 

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                  for my father, Bob

Far back in the field is
a sanctuary with a ceiling that exposes
our childhood of cracking open the hymnal for
perfect song scattered with old
women's voices that no longer care if
they are perfect. Their sanctuary
has moved into their closed throats
and we as children or men can only
photograph the pristine child of a church
that is remembered from far back in the growing
open to see the sky or what we
imagine as sky if Michelangelo had
anything to do with our
calculating, the worship would
come home and rest within reach

as immediately as opening
a door or cracking open
the hymn that resides in the rock
and roll man, the idol
that we teach to our children
who run through
the field and the sky
opens to their sound and all is perfect.


Copyright © 2000 Robyn Hunt.

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