The clouds form cobwebs in the air, conspiring to snare contact with yonder:
they mirror the wings of angels: wings that soar on prayer, not feather.

The priest pierces each portal 'to bless it'. Passing through later,
he puts his pipe up my doll's house chimney. "Was that a blessing too, Father?"

The surfer, Slew Slaw, slides his slice of wood through a cylinder of water -
riding through the fluid tunnel's centre, while white horses thunder over.

In Vichy France the fishy smell. Passover paschal betrayal.
Nail INRI writing to the wall. Crossover pagan wassail.

notes:

Llew Llaw Gyffes [bright one of the skilfull hand]: Welsh god/hero who killed his wife's lover with a spear-shot which penetrated a stone placed between Llew and the cuckolder

passover, paschal: names of Jewish feast celebrating liberation from slavery in Egypt (achieved partly through God killing Egyptian children: Exodus 11.4 to 12.30). Paschal has become adopted by Christians to refer to Easter.

INRI: Latin initials Iesus Nazareth Rex Iudorum - Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews - nailed to the cross on which Jesus was crucified (Luke 23.38)

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