This is from something I'm working on, and was taken from a public
domain trans./small sample of Marguerite d'Oingt's hagiography of
Beatrice. I don't know if it meets your specifications, since it's
(supposed to be) centered.
_e_ is the symbol for identity in algebra. Pun on floating point.
Rgds,
Catherine Daly
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Beatrice gagged and expelled the host turned body, tumescent flesh.
Beatrice saw
floating, form of a child,
_hoc est enim corpus meum_
brightness between the priest's hands,
vivid,
circular, core crimson, scarlet,
resplendent, illuminating
a child
_e_
above this point
gold enfolded and entered other ring
splendor shared uniting in child ringing
in the midst of splendor.
She saw an image limned (as an illustration in a book).
She could not describe. Not an envelope.
Now she sees as the others.
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