Canticle for Sister Shell

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A round painting of a nautilus shell opening onto a starry sky with a swirling galaxy above distant mountains

for Mirian Kanev, Myrna Borus, Saint Francis and Saint Clare

Not all things broken from their shell
Irradiate the drama of a lush
Epiphany. For some, events finesse
A rebirth out of shards that swells
To sea-change only in the hush
And whisper of dolcesse, dolcesse...

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