Jessica Moore - San Cristobal

(for Galen)


Evening turns,
sudden as pigeons.

Prayer flags white on the sky
like flickering wings

Light pauses —

the church dome bathed
orange, raving, exultant

this last outpouring of deep sun
violet clouds roiling forward





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