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Ascension

Your spirit hovers above the deep

you contemplate the beautiful intention; you utter the first fiat.

Then destructive impulses whisper intricately fabricated lies
haunting mortals with their lingering, deflating hisses –

and your spirit glints on the hastily-cast bronze of the raised serpent.

Then you, too, are lifted up. You rise slowly, painfully pinned against rough wood.

You rise mysteriously from descent among the dead caught in a divine caesura.

From the Mount of Olives, you rise above our impoverished queries
as your creative imagination circumvents the satanic misdirection …

Even now, you keep alive the beautiful intention …

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Creation Genesis 1:3, Temptation Genesis 3:1-4, Serpent Numbers 21:4-9, Crucifixion John 3:14 Ascension, Acts 1:1-6