CROSS GARDEN.(Poem)

Poetry | December 1, 2000| | Copyright

 
   Glare ice on the asphalt north of Prattville 
   kept the back road deadly where acres 
   of whitewashed crosses shaped Reverend Rice's 
   holy ground. Upstairs the stars were waking, 
   and a car taking this curve would need wings 
 
   to keep from losing the earth if a foot 
   touched the brake. It was pine slopes and red 
   clay the self-made preacher laced with Christmas 
   lights and splashed with scripture. It was his 
   nightmare not even Bosch or Jimmy Swaggart's 
 
   TV scare team could have dreamed up: scarlet 
   Barbies dangled from a gibbet painted 
   dead ...

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