A place to see the little things between the monuments and tombs. As in the chapel of St Gabriel, a pencil.
Here they are, behind the obvious. Next to the chapter house, a cupboard with a bowl, four toilet rolls.
How small things quietly wait, make us forgivable. Inside the vestry, just inside the door, an iron.
You might disagree with half of it, but you’ll enjoy reading all of it
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