sw00302a-redemption.friday

Autobio


 Today is Good Friday.  Today I heard a crow's caws;
 or: today is a crow's cause day.  For myself, I expect
 today will be a reflection day and a day of two meals
 of pink salmon.

 ~

 It is quite chilly here this morning in Springfield, MO,
 and it is forecasted to be freezing chilly during the
 night tonight, tomorrow night, the next night, and
 Monday night: down to 18 Sunday night.  We are
 under a high.  I'm tempted to call it Sprintedon
 Winter with the hope that once it has sprinted on
 it will not return.  Yet, cold as it is, I must say:
 Thank you, high, for your sunny dry eye, though it
 has not come by/ yet.  Today, so far, is a blustery
 overcast day, but not a dark overcast day.  It is
 more like the color of this page, a color I have 
 had to settle on due to my need to use white as
 a text color in a few special places.

 ~

 In 1982, while Janice and I were temporarily
 in Austin, TX, I published an Alden St. Cloud
 (my major pen name which I no longer use)
 selection of my poems.  In that rare book's
 "Other" section is a poem which is actually a
 Holy Saturday poem but because of the title
 I chose for it/ I am placing it in this entry.  
 In that same section is a much older religion-
 oriented poem I plan to post in tomorrow's
 autobio entry.  The angle of vision in each 
 of the poems is unusual.
 -
 -
 "Good Friday Evening, 1979"


 Today is Friday the 13th
 and the moon is full
 and the Son of Man is

 dead, alive
 in the shades of Hell;
 from the tombs of those

 dead He selects
 those long-patient
 who shall rise from those

 dead as He--
 opening the gates
 of the promised but

 dead those years
 until His sojourn
 on Earth and His

 becoming dead--rises
 into the New Garden
 clothed with Light.

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       [ from page 77 of First Pick,
         a rare out-of-print book,
         Copyright 1982 by Alden St. Cloud
         Thinking Lizard        Austin, Texas ]

                                Redemption Friday


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Brian A. J. Salchert