It is crumbling
Succumbing
Transmuting
Transcending
Shimmering in the sun

It can pulsate with
Music
Poetry
Prophecy
Grief unrestrained

It can be quiet
Memory
Mindfulness
Meaning
Being maintained

Emerging into light
Mostly blue
A slightly brighter hue
Than that at Saint Denis
Or Our Lady of Chartres

North transept in ruins
South never started
Crossing betwixt absences
Converging beneath curves
Entering our darkness

Byzantine beginnings
Hyperbolae extending
Gothic perpendiculars
Gently contained
Set midst a purposeful grid

Revelation

It is unfinished
Complicated
Inconsistent
But I would insist
Not incoherent