the work of art
maybe it’s the tension of creation
of sensing
something different
to be
remade
and so reconsidered
there’s simply the beauty
in the difference
of the thing
colors
angles used in other ways
untypical
exhibiting by protest no matter
how
genial
the showing and
the gathering
the sips of wine and such
the room décor
the thing
once owned
should complement
though there was the making
and the message with
remains
to rise
time and again
through the risks of close
appreciation
and
reaction
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(x = space)
x
x
prayer in a circle
x
prayer in a circle
at the table
or
while standing
anywhere
x
it’s beautiful
attaching words
to statements
supplications
even
questions
with our doubts
x
the prayer is over
we are stronger
knowing
something to affirm
and in a kind
of pledge
to do the next thing
with spiritual
aplomb
and just plain niceness
(yep)
to each other
as the circle visually
fades
to purpose
x
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(x = space)
x
x
Blessings
x
God is good
We say this
I think more people have more
Ways to say that
God is great
Maybe that sounds too much
Like a battle cry, so
USA suburbanites say
At grace
That God is good
x
We like the notion of
God as our friend
And God is our friend
Jesus has said so
Maybe those with God
But without God as a person
See this attitude
As thankless
Even while we’re thanking God
x
We lack perspective of
The God who leads us into
War or will take us to
A majestic place called paradise
When our impersonal
Services are done
x
It’s hard for us
With God as a person
And a friend
To think about torn flesh
In crucifixion,
Muscles pushing the lungs
To breathe
Blood flowing everywhere
And visceral humiliation
But this is what we did to God
Don’t try to place it on a group
We all took part
x
God our friend
Jesus whom we love
We killed him
And forgot the resurrection
Buried him away
And felt satisfied with that
Or mourned
x
So desiccated doctrine
That while hiding
Satisfied or scared
We wouldn’t take a drink of news
That it was not all over
Never had been
x
The women and a man
Were first witnesses then heralds
Met with skepticism
Most likely scoffs
Maybe cursing
Sanhedrin and the Romans would
Have strategized
Large human spiders among webs
While closer disciples
Struggled (badly) to perceive
To understand the words
That spoke to sights and sounds
And all sensations
From the encounters at the rounded
Tomb of Joseph
Whose first resident was gone
An absurdity, if not a crime
Of action
x
Our rabbi
Our teacher and our friend
By his own words three nights ago
Has been taken
That’s the best disciples’ thoughts could do
Modern minds would have done no better
Except to maybe add a layer of
Arrogance to it
Because in the here and now
We know better
x
Well, there was a disappearance
Then the appearing happened
God with us again
Immanuel
Where had God gone?
Nowhere in particular
Maybe to harrow hell
x
God with us again
And, by the way,
Is God
Majestic and inventive
Fear and love beholden
From souls and minds
And anything that moves in us
That breathes
That has being
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Tomb
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MachinE
form that serves itselF
like bureaucracy that’s lost its waY
calculation and summatioN
records of everythinG
charts everything but coursE
never showing us the waY
has credibility for the shape it iS
and because it works more efficiently than uS
We pioneer
We tear the paper edges even on waterproof paper
We feel the wind and rain
Spear through our layers of cotton, wool, and stronger new-made stuff
We are sturdy stuff
We try
We try again
the machine doesn’t threateN
but it is an alien thinG
We are not made of catalogued parts
Rather creator’s compass
It may know
To us it’s brave chaos
Risk in the unknown
machine doesn’t feaR
In wind that incites
We don’t fear
To us it is all vague before we explore
Shapeless and clock-incalculable
To which we’ll add
what gear-efficiency cannoT
Purpose enough
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