getting to Easter by way of Canada

stone

prayer rugs wearing thin
weary of babbling supplicants
whose sackcloth and ashes cling
stubbornly to frayed edges and
weakened fibers

Pharisees and Sadducees
even Levites
rolled their worn out voices into
one weighty bundle
stuffed into the mouth of the cave
willing it to become stone

choosing their circuitous
dead end journeys
preferring to remain Leaderless
rather than receive the
Resurrection held out to
the chosen ones, the gentiles
and the meek

phyllis boernke   © 15 march 2013