Image: a railway platform with the words MIND THE GAP painted for the
benefit of those alighting from the train, so that the letters are upside-down
from the perspective of those waiting to board the train.
Now is the season for journeys home by train
(it has been too long)
I have seen the light from above
reflected—twice given—for us
from either side, bestowing
shadowy travelers with a halo;
haloed angels in our midst, or hallowed saints
made holy by this grace?
Look hard, and faces fall from grace,
too solid—no, but look again,
out of the corner of your eye:
flesh, blood, and bones,
these are the raw materials of heaven.
Passengers a-lighting,
please mind the gap
between the earth and heaven,
for it is smaller than at first appears.
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