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VOICES IN ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL

for Geddes Thomas

Christopher Wren designed it from base to dome—

built in the 17th & 18th centuries,

declared complete about ninety years after

the first twenty were brought to Jamestown.

Alone in the Whispering Gallery

I lean to the ear of no one to my left—

Can you hear me?

A voice, my father’s,

his father’s, comes from the right—

Can you hear me?

I’ve brought voices here with me;

they linger the way odors do.

A friend who visited the citadel at Gorée Island said

you can smell death left over from the days of the trade.