paradoxical adoxography: Chariot ride...

Gregorian chant swallows me whole as it clears the air in my car.

A high tenor’s brief but powerful solo is rejoined by fraternal harmony:

Alleluia

I've never been more aware of where I am.

I’m amused how much I don’t care where I’m going.

Three years have passed since considering a priestly vow.

Perhaps then in the confines of such cathedral isolation

I would have learned how to need nothing but Divine adoration;

Such desired consecration,

Just not humanly possible.

(crescendo followed by a rest)

An angelic sister’s chamber choir joins in;

Pure pitch and melodic notation.

Proof that although men can sing,

They were never meant to sing such a hymn, alone:

Alleluia

I am my own cathedral

and in my heart is such a song.

But then I begin to want and worry;

Proof that although men can sing,

They were never meant to sing such a hymn, alone:

Alleluia

~2013 Vaughn Wood

paradoxical adoxography