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Son of man
That I might see
Is there an icon of eyes
of the dove
wings wide
just above the shoulder –
and of in the eyes
that branch
buried in the heart of Jesus?
A sower went out to sow some seed
Rocks and thorns got wind of it,
the city council,
the zoning commission –
everyone up in arms.
Who was this man,
and what would come
of what he’d sow?
Silence circles the host
Of weeds and wheat and smoke and fire
The Gronk has a punctured lung
maybe
the paper says
and you can still see the hit
the one-two
and still feel how
you were glad for it
after what he did to us
two years ago
catching that pass.
What Christ thinks of football I don’t want to know,
but I can see his eye
and hear his breath,
and I’d best be off
before I think some more.
Encounter
Detail from triptych by Carla Veltman.
When they took Christ from his cross and put up the wizard instead
(Thinking he was the scarecrow –
Nailing straw to a post –
Flashback
How’s a stick man to warm his insides?
God knows every manner of suffering
It seemed like a fine plan,
writing Himself into His own work,
to taste and be tasted –
descending in scarlet,
sinking to flesh –
but who knew the life of man
was a brutal current turning,
slow and wide
then swifter and deeper
till the sky
became
a little white circle climbing
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