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The Loneliness of God
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God is not alone
For God is
In three parts
And always
One
And always three
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Jesus in the flesh
Could leave
And left
For hillsides
Other isolated places
Divine agony
And privilege
For sorrow
Things to feel the first time
All alone
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Divine surprise
Pain
And maybe
Astonishment
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The Second Day
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The day
After resurrection
Jesus appears to many
There is work to do
After the great miracle,
It seems
Affirming what Mary
Has said
Showing marks of wounds
To Thomas
Teaching, still
Cooking fish beside a fire
Talking about metaphors
Of sheep
Hoping Peter understands
Then after many days
Of words and signs
A leavetaking
Leaving instructions
Until he should come back
Having left a promise, too,
Of help
Like his
In fact, him still
This person will indwell
Like blood, like bone,
Like organs
Like thoughts and feelings
That’s pretty close
Inside
A guide
Someone to speak to worth
A presence, bearing
Through the times
Of pleasure and of pain
The ease of life
The things we never think
To get through
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It’s a busy time
After Easter Day
There will be letters
Words
Greetings, admonishments
Compassion
Affirming of directions
These all will last
In the book through Revelation
Until, in fact,
Parousia
And the obvious way to do it
Spirit inside, outside
All partners now
Treading the new fields
Of new Earth
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Interested Bunny waiting for food.
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Flying, Creeping Things
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I liken the bird
To the Holy Spirit
That flies with grace,
Usually
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Often arrives
As a surprise
That on good
Days knows the wind
And all the stirrings
Of the Earth,
That often arrives
As shadow,
Serving
As prophecy
Anticipated
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The Bible kind
Nothing marketed
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We can aim
And shoot
And tear the metaphor
Apart
Or we can listen
Glossolalia
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A song announcing
God is alive
In fragile revelation
For our sakes
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Closely attend
An irony of notice,
Trampling the uncertainty
Doctrine or fear
Demand
With the way in
We’ve always wanted
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Leviticus 11:21-22
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