This small chapbook celebrates a sacred moment in the history of Notre Dame Cathedral: the restoration from the famed April 15, 2019 fire. Beginning with a prelude and progressing onward to a fugue, the narrative follows the cruciform internationally-loved temple of worship. As it grows in prophetic significance through the eyes of a priest, the fire and its devastation, the human response of those gathered to watch, the act of saving haloed relics, through the miraculous preservation of the organ, to the restoration itself, and the eventual re-opening gain precious significance. Each poem, in the form of a sonnet or a sonnet sequence serves as prayer, a midnight vigil in the heart of a community frozen in fear. The poems by Winter occur in sequence, in the order in which they were written, a lament against the growing dark. Based in a historical event and real facts about the cathedral and the relics themselves, the poetry delineates the progression from the sanctity of relics to the joy of a thousand new faces, proposed converts of the restoration and a hoped-for spiritual renewal. Comparing priests to mature olive trees, and the converts to a white harvest field, the sonnets fill the despairing with hope amid ash and the grieving with solace. The Intercessions rebuilds in human hearts what the fire could not consume. "By the end, what stayed with me wasn’t triumph or healing, but endurance. The act of continuing to pray, continue to witness, even when the outcome isn’t clear. That quiet persistence felt like the heart of the book. . . highly recommended." —Max Prime, reviewer