Rachel Lott

To build the Sagrada Familia, the architect Antoni Gaudí created an upside-down model of the cathedral in his workshop using hanging chains. My life in chains is all I see within this prison. And here we hang, with clang on clang, though God is risen, and all that dangles of remains of hopes and dream sways gently with the darkling chains from darker beams.

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