Zephyr 2003 - Mendocino College Online Journal of the Arts


literary arts: poems

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* Dot Brovarney


Catechism

confession, confusion, penance, punish, purify, forgive, give up, abstain, abscond, absent, extreme unction, puncture, nails, sharp, rip flesh, blood pouring, dripping red, draining life away, gone dead, buried behind cold stone by Mary Magdalene, whore no more, redeemed, salvation, salivation, hunger, thirst, bread, water, loaves and fishes, miracles, on 42nd Street, cross the street, to bear the cross, a heavy burden, the sins of the world, weight on his shoulders, bent in sorrow for you, but betrayed by judas, agony alone in the olive garden, strung up dead, with sinners hung, graveseekers come up empty, but good rises again on the third day, 40 days and 40 nights wandering in the desert, no food, baby Moses in reeds rescued, saved to part the red sea, dripping blood red from jesus' wounds, draining, irrigating crops, feeding his people, drink his blood from the cup, he died for you, for your sins, aren't you glad?

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