Did they exchange shared ecstasies in their crossbeams?
Her pity, the seed of hearts that bleed for others --
protect us, candles in our endless night of dreams?
and the beasts that lurk in those we call our brothers.
Veronica's wipe cloth is not there on eBay tonight;
it remains a symbol for which no price is right.
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VII. JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME
Stricken with grief for our sins, Jesus fell again.
And I have often wondered how the priests do it,
sitting behind the screen in the confessional,
listening to the trite, and to the obsessional,
to mafiosi clearing the slate, the poet,
the high-risen, and the homeless, and priests as men.
To take on the sins of a world that likes sinning
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