Thursday, August 4, 2016


division’s sum
Harvey S. Mozolak

three agains two
and
two against three

water swells
from the well 
of Names with the Name
far beyond the heavens
and rains the reign of God

baptism unites
the flood pools
drowns the stain
and spill of soil
and floats to dry land
a faith-shod people

led by pillars of clouds
and fire
and a sandaled righteous rabbi
at home praying 
between the columns
of the Temple
and walking
teaching and touching
limping beggars
the blind and diseased
beside the stoney paths
amid beaten lives
at village funerals
and among the demonized

his baptism joins
him to us
except
this
his he said
much after 
Jordan with John

I have a baptism
with which to be baptized
and what stress 
I am under
until it is completed

peace pulled beneath
in undertow
division’s draining 
whirlpool
not of water but of drought
kindling dry dead branches
to cross the hot hewn trunk
boiling blood
evaporating breath
in the noon sun 
fueled by burning 
in the raging tongues of hate
sown deep within the family
weathered by warnings
from the Presence
appearance
clouded by the present time
The Three for all
free

Lectionary 20

Luke 12. 49-56

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