They dropped the seal of approval somewhere
And scavengers performing their necessary labor
Scrambled to collect the remains
To distribute the fungible instrument
Albeit in corrupt and fragmentary form
As Jacob hoodwinked Isaac sidelined Esau
And enriched himself
This is the way the world works
Outsized ascendancy of cunning
As all learned who enjoyed the tutelage
Of one holy catholic and apostolic church
Controlling omnipotence by means
Of doing the impossible
Namely obeying the command to believe
Though the recipe also requires
The recitation of verbal formulae
In scores and hundreds of iterations
And the renunciation of pleasure
And shame will make its epiphany
And shame will attend your nakedness
And thus light will be made to be
And separated from substantial darkness
And the scales will be evened
According to the doctrine of prefigurement
Prolepses of Solomonic song
Sacerdotal gesture of Melchizedek
As for example the storm that currently rages
Prefigures the day of judgment
And the resurrection of the body
Joyful or sorrowful as the case may be
As the pelican pricks her breast
To provide nourishment for her offspring
Or the bear licks her cub into bear shape
Or a slaughter of innocents unattested in the chronicles
Or the true image that appears on a sweatrag
Or a giant who bears an impossible infant burden
Or the slaying of a dragon species not seen since
Or water into wine and back again fit for finger-dipping
Or tresses that suddenly grow to hide her denuded body
Or efficacious relics scapulars medals waters and vestments
Or spaces vast and reverberant
Or the dogwood with its cruciform flowers
Punished by stunting
So that never again could its timber
Hoist thief or traitor or holy redeemer
And leave a little space of earth
For raptor and herbivore