By Steve Evans

one of glass

one of water

one of ice

one of barbed wire

one of leather

one of dust

one of love letters

one of photographs

one of mice

one torn in halves

one drawn in air

one not drawn anywhere

one of feathers and little wings

one of scarabs

one of insect shells

one unfinished

one of string

one of strips torn from other gowns

one of promises

one of hopes

one of words and words and words

then finally

one of silences longer than those

in an empty church