This sixth circle is not a place to receive
many accolades, peopled with the likes found
in the backgrounds of famous paintings.

The Passion plays
its faces, all of Christ, after being scourged.
Christ the lamb swings from a felled tree.

In the end, when the doctors circle around
like doctors, they can find nothing wrong,

As fate would have it, I showered
at the time, late in the morning.
The evidence of certain postulates pooled around.