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Writer's pictureThe Green Phoenix

Spirit of Iona, by Noah J. Guthrie

Updated: Jul 17, 2020

Black rams kneel in bouldered vale,

bony spirals bowed, curling

inward, hissing in the gale.

Rain gives shape to wind, hurling

dove-like daggers across Columba’s isle,

slicing through the grass-clad fields,

slashing through serrated piles

of rubble, broken shields,

scourging headstones in their vigil:

crosses, arms upraised, chests bared

as graven spirals drill

into their core. The humus, snared

in weeds, splits and bleeds,

receives the flashing, windborne seed.

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