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What Flesh?

John T. Hitchner

What character, this inner landscape?
No sacristy in form,
no altar in soul.
Does it kneel,
take bread,
touch wine to its lips?
Or, like some rough smiling beast,
does it turn and laugh upon nails, bones,
and skulls in its wake?
What flesh?

What skin this paper, these coins?
To burn oil, light lamps,
Or to whet hands
that anoint brows with blood,
pierce bodies with bayonets?

What destiny, this wind,
this fire, this earth?
What flesh?



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