On Easter, Christians often greet each other with the exchange, “He is risen!” “He is risen, indeed!” This expresses our belief that Christ’s resurrection is a fact—a fact assuring us death is not the end of our story, individually or as a community.
“New Song” is a poem in my third book, Shadow and Memory, which I expect to self-publish in May or June this year. It is an abstract presentation of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, and celebrates the renewal He brought to everything. Happy Easter!
New Song Stretched and held taut corkscrew-twisted until song wrings out until blood drips into the pool of the cosmos with xylophonic tones whose ripples surge into waves that roll away like stones chased by birthquakes and angel-fire Sing Sing a new song
A Wandering Minstrel 