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Article: The altar in Saint Peter's basilica. (poem)
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- March 25, 1994
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The Altar in Saint Peter's Basilica
Good Friday, 1993
They built it in the center
instead of at the head. Spires root
into the dust freckled air,
spires of twisting gold, spires
that are really pillars. not spires
at all. They support nothing
but the weight of the piety thick air,
the prayer heavy air that hugs
an altar of black and gold. Beneath,
an ashen center, a riddled pith,
an ...