Benjamin Niespodziany: We Pray to Space

Benjamin Niespodziany: We Pray to Space
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Tabernacle

 

 

                        Don't closet spotless lamb with unplanned habits.

                        Cabinet with the headdress, the rest with the coif.

 

                        Clergy burn toys in the museum of stitched hope. The antipope

                        stoic, a gold mantlepiece by candlelight. The monk's underveil.

 

                        We pray to space. We fail. We jail so long. Either way,

                        the cave is made a chapel by dawn.


Benjamin Niespodziany is a night librarian at the University of Chicago. He runs the multimedia art blog [neonpajamas] and has had his work published in HOOT review, Cheap Pop, Pithead Chapel, Occulum, and various others.