Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters Volume 4, Issues 1 & 2 | Page 9

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REBECCA KYLIE LAW

ROUGHLY ABOUT A SENSE OF DIVINITY
Periwinkle light behind the stained glass windows
drew out the interior light so that
the white hail-rocks I had watched
fall on the outside of my windscreen
were back in my mind, the beauty
of their shatterings when alone,
driving in night without music:
it was the sound of hardness to a
softness, of a petering out, the
whiteness too, bright as some bird
feathers have in their translucencies,
the egret or crane. And yet,
through the open door to my right,
half a pentagon view of a sloping
roof with slate tiles and gathering
moss, a sky still dayish in its
blue quality and something of