Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe

Patti Smith's poem written for Robert Mapplethorpe

As there is strength 
in blackness
a deep control
a calla flare
trumpets
grace corporeal
there is a steady hand
adjusting child lace
and bravery's face
in veil inviolate
there is a steady hand
adept in heavens skin
spending into black
where pure hearts
are kin.