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‘welcome, my children,’ said the dark figure, ‘to the communion of your race’
nathaniel hawthorne

trace your belief in science / is it married to a belief in god / is it like that girl in argento’s great film / SUSPIRIA / who interrogates a coven of witches and escapes / to the hard world of brute fact / looking thru a bedroom window / rain-plashed / her face refracted in the reflected light of water and glass / waiting / for a death / where is her faith / is it in the interstices of waiting / a hunt for eternity / the camel passing thru the eye of a needle