Lynne Stewart, Our Lady Mandela, in the Season of Giving

 

They slashed his back with lashes,

collapsed his lungs on a crossbow,

then shot him into the sky--

for mourning or redemption,

depending on one's view.

 

Now It imposes its laws

on a woman wedded to Law,

who fought for the truth of the Law,

to publish it like Luther,

on pain of execrations.

 

On pain of separation

from family, home, and her Cause.

Even a sentence of cancer

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