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Standing Before the Relic at the Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges

Standing Before the Relic at the Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges

James Davis May

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Today's poem is by James Davis May

Standing Before the Relic at the Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges

In my imagination, he's played by one of the good dads
from my childhood—sometimes my own father, a believer

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