La Fontaine de l'Eglise

from Arx Pilosa by Bob Drake

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There was a little country church hundreds of years ago
and what really happened we will never know.

La fontaine de l’eglise trickles peacefully
from a fragment of a flinty stone wall
all that’s left of an ancient church
which a remarkably strange event caused to be dismantled
and stricken from the historical record.

A section of masonry which had always appeared to be
unnaturally damp subsided below the altar
causing priest and congregation alike
to faint and to falter at what was revealed.

The witnesses chose not to speak of what they discovered
and the church was soon condemned and demolished
its stones used to fill up the pit.

Today only those who have lost their way
will happen to pass by that lonely, inhospitable place
where the fountain still trickles, be advised that it’s non-potable
and it’s unhealthy to loiter in the vicinity for any length of time
‘round those mounds of black and flinty stones
in the place where there once stood
a little country church, hundreds of years ago
and what really happened, we will never know.

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from Arx Pilosa, released November 1, 2016

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