David Prestidge
ON PROCESS THEOLOGY
What was it you said today?
"Don't needle me, I've learned to bleed?"
The prayers. The hymns. The beads. Now this?
Don't you know your confession is like sand
through the engines of consequence? Television snow?
Shall I consult the Oxford Book of the Dead?
The sages of our century? The flood lights?
Freud, God, Kübler-Ross?
That betrayer Frost who wrote
(You underlined this for me, remember?
the morning they forecast radiation
and it was like Chernobyl wrestled the hair
from your skull?)
'The nearest friends can go with anyone to death comes far too short?'
Freud. God. Kübler-Ross.
God hiding behind the shipwreck of a diseased ghost.
God revolve the transcendent skein with a slight whir and whisper --
faultlessly --
God morning that summer and the rings of Chernobyl.
God of the rings and the hymns and the prayers.
The songs of the dead.
God of the beads.
First published in Gravity
Date of Birth: 12/18/75 Email: prestidged@mindspring.com Website: http://prestidged.home.mindspring.com/
