The complete history of violence, down
to a body--exhaustive & neatly shrouded.
That eerie Jew beat like a girl, & made to
embrace Rome on high.
A Roman-made example, in a tomb like
a political safe.
Chesty guards outside, pre-fall pawns
dreaming of: food, ******* & drink.
There he was, darkened by every sickly
white stitch.
Told--head to toe.
Our stiff moment subject to memory.
More of desperate search standing in
for belief again.
Light that knew not, now knows
salvation is what it lights.
The truth & the way & the life.
He had to go through everyone, the
culmination of our works.
Then walked his body through stone.
Squinting into all we'll ever be.