Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters Volume 4, Issues 1 & 2 | Page 39

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TIM MCLAFFERTY

THE MYSTICAL KNIGHT
charcoal and pastel, Odilon Redon
Angel, I gift you this fresh-severed head!
Human, thy flaw is common: see thee not
my sword? For I am thy creation—
warlike and righteous, a servant of God
who thou shalt never see. Even in
thy perfected and most profound darkness
of all senses, thou wouldst merely come to
know the place in which he dwells, yet you kill
for him and call him friend. Thou hadst brought thy
brother