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Stained Glass Window

Kenneth DiMaggio

When the Sunday morning
sun struck the dozens
of red petals
representing blood
or perhaps tears

a fragile image
blazed
with a substance
too strong
for its glass

—just like the sins
for most of the folks
in this parish

who always seemed
ready to break
from the obligations
of a faith
that seemed too enormous
for blue collar
Cat’lick New England
lives

that were always
being lived

on the edge of broken

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