Brett Harrington
The fever dream of being
recedes into another:
from vault to vault
gaunt shadows wander
swinging smokeless censers,
droning jagged hymns
in an unknown tongue,
lured on by
a cold gray light:
gleam of sky seen
from beneath
a pane of ice.
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Brett Harrington’s previous or forthcoming publications include Psaltery & Lyre, Burningword, Ligeia, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Shore, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2012 Best of the Net award and lives in the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon.