can Kairos* hang with the laundry
in an Ashcan School painting
hopeful and clean
there on a New York rooftop
certain of a better day
that stop-time ikon,
right there, beaconing to us
to cross a threshold
yet blocking the passage
all held up by sturdy wooden clothespins
not to worry, hey
have a little faith
*The perfect moment, revelation through a look or happening, a sudden realization of the holy encased in the immediate
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