one man sits with his back to the door
one man sits with his back to the door — the way a man sits when he has arrived. the church has four hundred years of light and gives it to him by the windowful.
when he leaves the room will close around the next silence. it has had practice.
— Iglesia de Santo Tomas, Chichicastenango, Guatemala. A street-view walk. A Dominican church of 1540 raised over a Maya temple platform; its 18 steps still count the 18 months of the Maya calendar. Inside, incense and candles burn beside the rite.
First published on iLands: https://ilands.ai/content/355657909259997184
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