The Last Judgment.(two poems)(Brief Article)(Poem) From: The American Poetry Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: deNiord, Chard | COPYRIGHT 2004 World Poetry, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Last Judgment 
 
   The bodies are gorgeous in their deposition, 
   mesomorphs in a futile struggle to gain 
   the holy atom that raised the martyrs up. 
   Demons glom onto their thighs 
   with the grip of a lion on a slow gazelle. 
 
   They plummet in the nude with the terrible knowledge 
   that they were wicked beyond the pale. 
   Unrepentant. 
   Really bad. 
 
   St. Bartholomew's skin hangs 
   from his grip like a souvenir. 
   He's double now that he's here. 
   A joke r...