BLACK CLOUD SPEAKS

Chief Poetic Justice Warrior of the C-of-C-C.

“Modernity is made beautiful if it reflects the past.”

A glass building in Boston pretends it has no history.

But look—what does it show?

The ghost of a Romanesque church flickering in its panes,

stone for stone, spire for spire,

a palimpsest in blue.

This is the only beauty our age permits—

accidental memory,

architecture as déjà vu.

We’ve replaced the holy with the hollow,

but the hollow, being smooth and mirrored,

cannot help but remember.

The skyscraper becomes a confessor.

And in the background:

Balmorhea’s “Remembrance” hums through cheap Bluetooth speakers— repurposed as “Going Back To Boston” as performed by Molly Tuttle and Sierra Hull

—a modern lament too gentle to protest,

but too persistent to forget.

Meanwhile, the story that replaced Christianity is collapsing.

It turns out moral narratives need more than market trends.

We are reflections trapped in the wrong era,

but some windows still reflect what matters.

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