SAINT JULIAN PRESS

Anne McCrary Sullivan ~ Poet

Benediction with Cello

 
I can never keep them completely separate--
blessings           and the French blessures.
 
What’s the difference anyway
                                    blessing   wound.
Think stigmata.   Think holy blood. 
 
Torn by storm               struck by lightning          
marked by char    every    one    of these pines       
shows signs            a deep gash     
bark ripped        heartwood gouged.  
 
Beetles move in    ants come   and then 
the probing woodpeckers     as streams 
of balming resin pour        and thick lips form
around the busy wound  glowing    red
 
growing hard, its only purpose      healing  
(unlike the simple clarity of sap    
thin       conducting       daily business).  
 
No wonder we     the ever-wounded     prize
the amber jewel’s light    tremble    at tender          
resonance          rosin   on the horsehair bow.  
 

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Publisher: ‎ Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Language: ‎ English
Paperback:  102 pages
ISBN-13:  978-1955194143 
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