Bruce Weigl, "Rapture" (1992)


Near Khe Sahn, by the Quang Tri river
I mounted a highland hill
in dubious morning light
and watched a priest
through the war fouled air
lift his sacrosanct white
sleeves in prayer,
before the kneeling.


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