Dwindling to Battery-operated Glimmer
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“Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy found their highest bliss in gazing together
at a glow-worm ‘laid safely by itself beneath a tree.’ This is Zen.” ~ R. H. Blyth
Perhaps a couple in a standard love
Affair would find a similarity
At dinner with the Eiffel Tower above
The candles on their table. Charity
As veils is pulled across the Wordsworth scene.
A little child with candle flames who writes
The holiness of scripture in between
The melting columns knows what sacred lights
