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        Chartres Cathedral – View from south-east

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                                               for Donna

a few days before a dear friend was due 

to pass away, which is to say with medical 

assistance, I had taped from television, 

whether coincidentally or not, Antonin 

Dvorak’s “Requiem”, though I hadn’t yet 

listened to it

on the day of the procedure, I lit candles, 

put the music on, and sat in attendance 

as its flights of angels s[a]ng [her] to

[her] rest

the piece is somber, probably reserved for

somber occasions, but upon their instance, 

the work is glorious, and salutary

here, it is performed at the Cathedral

of Chartres, suffused with the solemnity 

and the splendour appropriate to such 

a fateful moment   

may you journey forth in peace, 

dear friend

R ! chard