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Ghiberti Gawkers

Observations in the Midst of a Madding Crowd

Even closed, the gates of paradise creak something awful.

They open only for those who don’t push, and who among us doesn’t?

Want a peek inside? You expect knotholes in perfection?

The silence of our puzzled loitering is interrupted only by the occasional hissy-fit of the perpetually impatient.

Blind, deaf, mute, lame, how would we know, what would we do, if they opened?

Only the cleverest lurkers learn to conjure worlds, some viable, some not, while waiting.