R. Mac Jones

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Architectural Salvage: Stained Glass

These windows offer
a piecemeal Jesus
held by metal crosses,
the intersecting solder,
whose stained body appears
jointed and dark
when seen from the outside
and inside whole,
in splendid color
cast on a bare wood floor.

R. Mac Jones lives in South Carolina. He is the editor, with Ray McManus, of Found Anew: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections (University of South Carolina Press).