With Hair as Curly as a Fugue

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 “Singing is a lover’s thing.”  ~ Saint Augustine

A face more beautiful than choiring songs,

More beautiful than singing in the choir,

A beauty that a wish in reverence longs

For fills the heart with solemnized desire

Cathedral lighting made intense,

And then, and then the lips in pink reveal

Another moving pink which shakes, intense,

Inside the chest this fleshly seventh seal,

A revelation straight from heaven’s thrones,

From where archangels open up their notes

And send them out through angel lips in tones

For Christ.  This tongue its softest beauty floats.

  It floats out carol beauty, moving pink

    Like God’s perfection, Revelation’s brink.

“The atmosphere ONLY responds to those who live the song and become the altar.” ~ Michael A. Dalton

~ Phillip Whidden