Jaydn DeWald

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Church

marble from unions          blue hands from down-          stairs
          chalk-dust from rivers-           old          ivory from tears
from dancers          ascension / black          shoes from downstairs
          birds o’ standards          from players, & stomping
from prayer          woodwinds from cloakrooms          our solos from dancers
          horn from blown hearts / our           solos from players
a cup from blood tears          it’s monk time un-
           languaged          chords from more chords: the marble          from chambers / from
beechmast from breathwork           two          blown hearts from players
          the black shoes from horns / blue          rivers from
standards          prayer from ascension          old hands from down-
          stairs          standards from moon-howls          ascension
their tears          black / chalk-dust from woodwinds          a blood cup
          from blue          horn          ivory from stomping
from dancers mud-          rooms          chords from more chords,
          its monk time be-          ware          birds o’ downstairs
from stomping          from black shoes          & ivory          blown
          solos from un- / ions-          old          marble from tears

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JAYDN DEWALD is the author of The Rosebud Variations and Sheets of Sound, both from Broken Sleep Books. They are Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Piedmont University in Demorest, Georgia, USA.