Autobio OT = Old Testament NT = New Testament - Today is Holy Saturday, or Absent Day, or Tomb Day, or Mourning Day, which together oddly, yet perhaps appropriately, acronym to ATM, which in turn makes me think: atonement. An old poem of mine--I do not recall when I first penned it--reveals an OT/NT God I speak of as "Rune". Its style is neo-Romantic. Given the temper of these times on planet Earth, I feel today is a good day for it to reappear. I was a church-going Roman Catholic then, but now, as I say in my recently revised "January: Year-day 2" sonnet : I am a roamin' Cath'lic. - Depending upon circumstances, this status may change. - -
"Words from the Rune" I have it yet upon the stinking marigold, The glory of an angered eye; And where the flesh-path brushes past a naked thorn, The straightened will of Zion cold; And in my spear-infested waters Which tear at trunks of towered sky, The power of a thousand slaughters, The pleasure of eternal scorn. I send this still among man's dying villages, The chalice filled with living Blood; And through his fields of darkened wheat, The Bread that harries pillages; And under concrete mountains formed with rods Where shadows stab each other in the flood, The words which massacre his brazen gods; The collared-man to wash his feet. I take them yet out from the human slime, Those worthy figs I had no need to curse; And, oh, those star-surpassing objects devils burn, Holied tools to cross the spread of time; And all above their dry and chaffy earth Which are the hopes both good and bad disperse, I crush on streets the thistle's mirth; I build a chapel for the fern.
--------- [ "Words from the Rune" first appeared in First Pick, a rare out-of-print book, Copyright 1982 by Alden St. Cloud Thinking Lizard Austin, Texas 78741 ]
- Brian A. J. Salchert
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