A Cloud of Scary Witness - poem

Lawrence Hall
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A Cloudy of Scary Witness

And so it came to pass on the fifth of February
The Prayers over the Offerings spoke thus:

…created things
to sustain us in our frailty

There seemed to be a poem in those lines
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But maybe not. How much frailty can one bear?