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A Cold Day in Paradise

at the butterfly house

At the gate of Eden we stood, wanting back in.

A scruffy seraph stuffed our money into the pocket

of his frayed jeans. "Don't let them out," he said.

Was that the gasp of a lost soul I heard

as another door closed behind us?

A piece of stained glass flickered by, and then

a moth more secular, its wings clear as windows.

Another turned to tree bark when it landed.

A velvet eyespot stared at me until I blinked.

What could be read in that iridescent dust?

As if, in a book of devotions, the years

had robbed the miniature for December

of everything ...

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