Christ is Risen

That could just suit many a master…
But a resurrection is coming,
different, quite different, from any we imagined.
A resurrection is coming which is,
God’s rebellion against the masters,
and the master of the masters, death.
(Kurt Marti)

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Poem

Between pages

“These people socalled were not given hearts” 
breathed Kentucky,
Virginia, or Vermont fell asleep.

Lung-less they called the rest.
Fifty yellowed lung-full.
Breathe deep.

Who watches countdowns
While mystery become
While sun rounds moon?

million billion gasping.
Lung-less.
Fifty yellowed lung-full.
Breathe deep.

Flat flower. 
Breathe deep.
While sun rounds moon.

never die.

million billion gasping. 
These people socalled were given hearts.

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