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The bishop places a paperweight atop my reports on his desk,

our professional talk is measured by the silence of the dead

who are always flinging open their shutters,

religion being the work of the living and the dead,

the hope and release of children turning to their parents -

all that business in life that remains unrehearsed.

from The Prodigal Son

Spencer Reece

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