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Stations of the Cross - A Sonnet Sequence for Easter

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sell them as souvenirs of the fallen, divine

promiser of everlasting life. It appalled.

Material to immaterialism;

from dust to dust, as they say, to dust blown away,

molecules dispersed back into single atoms --

a cosmic diaspora to form new Adams,

new paradises to lose and regain one day

when the entire framework is reduced to one Ism.

If the fascists had stripped the Lord of Love today,

we would find his underwear on sale at eBay.

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XI. JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS

When the deal is done, and letters sealed and sent

to the apostles on the lam in Asia Minor

reach us hundreds of years later in homilies

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