Waiting

A quiet empty day
The altar stone bare
A winding sheet
Looped across
A cross
Dominates the empty nave.

The darkness dashed
By sunshine shafts,
Stained glass
Throws red patterns
Before the whiteness
Of the winding sheet.

The great west door
Just ajar
Awaits the coming
Of the Easter fire
At dusk.

JL March 30 17:16