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Vespers - from the Vampire Breviary, an Orison for Evening

Robert Borski
Poetry
Fantasy

Lying in their wooden pews,
each of the congregants

before receiving the blood
of the host says a small

prayer, hoping that nothing
they do that evening

after filing out of the boxed
nave into the stained-

glass intricacies of sunset
will circumvent their chances

at eternal life nor bring about
through temptation too long

a delay in the return to their
churchly lair—transubstantiated

once again from hungry to full,
if less than redeemed.
                                             


 

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Copyright 2009, Robert Borski. All rights reserved.

Robert Borski describes himself as a late-blooming child prodigy. He is the author of two books about Gene Wolfe (Solar Labyrinth, The Long and the Short of It) and lives in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

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