#2,457 A Prayer For Benedetta

A tool to induce replacement
of anyone –

& humiliation will
welt
[as red-bloodied marks
on a playing flesh] –

Benedetta’s
sins visited three times under
interrogations
[Tuscany’s cries
for truth left a scarring] –

Time
was not her friend under love
& amends –

A gelid cell –

stone-
burn on skin –

repentance left
to be reported
[by dear others
& often men] –

scapular taken
to punish foul women
[Carlini
removed under her sentence]