Attar of Roses / The Miraculous Reliquary

from The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors by Bob Drake

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Alabaster idols in their blue tiaras
line the secret hall, guarding.
On the turquoise sofa the hyena-thing
annoints itself with attar of roses.

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In the darkest corner of the church, the one that's shunned,
hidden by heavy, rotten velvet curtains and locked iron gates:
The Reliquary That Should Not Be.
(where have they gone?)

Here they kept the relics deemed too ghastly or grotesque
to be put on display for veneration.

One day it was found the relics had vanished without a trace. The former caretaker, who is now mad, told this tale:
"Well I heard a noise down there and I went to see, and saw a light comin' from the reliquary, so I looked in there...
I SAW them...
ASCENDING INTO HEAVEN!"

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from The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors, released May 1, 2001
Gravel Shovelling on The Miraculous Reliquary - Eveline Ketterings

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