who expects classical sculpture
in rural iowa town?
life-size figures of carrara marble
(think italy and michelangelo)
set with care inside massive stone shrine
rocky labyrinth of many rooms, this grotto of
the redemption hides like xenolith within prairie bedrock
created by concrete-mixing priest.
Melissa hosts quadrilles (44 word poems) at dVerse Poets. The theme is”xenolith” which is a fragment of foreign stone trapped inside a larger igneous rock. Photos by lynn__
a poem in my pocket 
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