396 - What They Meant at Sunrise

What They Meant at Sunrise
By Paul Reymond Waddle

Here's what they mean by poetry-
"sharp-tongued flower," single tear of blood
beading deep inside the khaki desert cave,
purple sudden storm, sluicing to the flood.

Well, it's what they meant by Easter too-
finding dark on the map, scraping the limed
bottom of a boat-wrecked chalice, creaking
off the throne, walking for the first time.

Paul Raymond Waddle is Religion Editor for The Tennessean, a Nashville daily newspaper, and has written on religious matters for The Christian Century and USA Today. His poetry has appeared in Sand River Journal and Loose Ends.