Mount Pleasant Cemetery
(Toronto,
Ontario Canada)
Gravediggers uprooting caskets
with
sharp, steel shovels-
each
slicing step downward
through
nerve-rooted earth
cooper
pennies jingle in change
pouches
dangling by their sides.
They
chat casually of Jesus,
His
painless resurrection
from
the sealed tomb,
money-changers
being chased
away
from God’s holy temple.
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet, editor, publisher,
freelance writer, amateur photographer, small business owner in Itasca,
Illinois. He has been published in more than 880 small press
magazines in 27 countries, and he edits 10 poetry sites. Michael is
the author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom, several
chapbooks of poetry, including From Which Place the Morning Rises and Challenge
of Night and Day, and Chicago. See his website for more about him http://poetryman.mysite.com/
Dear Michael,
ReplyDeleteThank you for this unusual poem.
It is quite challenging to think through.
Blessings,
Michael
Michael, call me crazy but Seamus Heaney came to mind when I read your poem. Well done in your own right.
ReplyDeleteMichael,
ReplyDeleteThis is great. 10 poetry sites -- I don't know how you have tome to manage them all and still find the time to post here.
Your friend,
David Fox
P.S. Can you share international sites you have been published in that are still existing on the web?
~Davidf
Interesting Michael, Grave money digger robbers talking about Jesus
ReplyDeleteDriving money changers out of the temple, I'll bet a coyote yap would
frighent them out of the grave yard. I liked reading this.
Yancy