rosemary
on Easter

1
oh no
what shall I say
for it is Easter
and I don’t feel Easter
at all

I can think the stories
hear them
more
and hope that they are true
though there are images
so real
inside of me as I
so many stories
believe so many storytellers are
not wrong

and now
church is done
I am
alone
and silent as so many noises
that are inside
allow

and I’d wish for company
regardless
someone for chocolate
even
for ham
[please ungreen]

2
let Easter be a verb

I guess from a substance
a meaning
to the action
and
if I am alone and that’s a problem
for
how much to do

I could acknowledge there’s a presence
beside my own
to help

that
gave me my own
the spark
however done

and there is
faith
and love
from that source
that made
and is
still making making all
for
our collaboration in the Earth
and by the spirit
invested
in so many
things
not the source
but
sanctioned and even given us
for use

though with accountability

but back from cosmic
to just me
and am I just
that
means so many things and are they lost
in translation

idioms
truisms
first
and final meanings
in order to employ
to apply
who we are
and
what we’ve been given

though
at the moment
is
alone

and Easter resurrection
that does not happen every
year
for having happened once
and we’re the versions
ever since
not because we
save ourselves

we don’t
as
that was
you know
once provided

and so for this love
shall I love me
so shall
we love each other and each other
to keep it
healthy as
a change

thus and
so not
to have earned my loneliness
but stone rolled back
for me
too
and we’re
released

God imprisoned first
releases
us

so Easter with baskets and with paper grass
with rabbits who do not reproduce
by eggs
that are candy or
the real thing
if
striped
eccentrically

for me
let me have the silly ways
for
remembrance
and let’s have them now
in
the now
for delight
if
for forbearance
sometimes as other matters
problems
press
even the lonely state

and try to see the joy with inward
sight
as with outward longing

by
the interest and investment
realized
in
safe as well as expanding
fire
in each
from each spark

as
today
emblemizing real from the source
given
through sacrifice
as love for
you
for all
as we are served and toward our
service

c l couch


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