How odd that church bells
open to the ground.
It seems to me
that they should open to the stars,
those blessed points
from which they were forged.
How fitting that when we die
we rest with our eyes to the stars,
our loves and our births
those flaming chimes
in which we live.
© — Michael Gravel
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