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Jill Alexander Essbaum
A Doubting Thomas sort-of sonnet
Sometimes I think belief is obsolete.
The sky is empty. God does not exist....
Im Friedhof
In your black coat I walk into June heat.You take a dark bird's shape and fly away.I see your ghost, but it does not see me....
A word and a calling
He rose again. His face was black and bruised.The underground famine had gnawed its gloss.Where I have been, you could not live to tell....
The question is one of ashes and dust
It is not my name, which you have alreadyinked into one interminable book or the other. Also,...
Variety of hells
Hell: the inescapable presence of Godendured in the permanent absence of him.A hell where your name is forgotten.Worse, the hell that remembers you....
O afterwards
And may the old life, that rotting flesh and treasurefind in the good pleasureof Christ, a forgetfulness complete: that these sins, however...
A good Christian mustn't fear the darkness of the grave
But let me tell you about its landscape. Small,hot, wooden, and from above no one will hear you murmur...
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