A quarter a person
09/20/2026 08:44h
Nearly one hundred thousand people
gave to raise the veil.
Not one great gift: small ones,
the whole fund averaging
a quarter a person.
The bronze they paid for shows
one man lifting a veil
from a man seated on a plow and anvil,
a book in his hands.
But a lift that size was never one man.
A hundred thousand palms opened,
the veil came off in quarters.
Every quarter was a hand.
Every hand was the arm.