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Poem found

Christian Century,  Nov 1, 2005  by Martha Serpas

Poem found

New Orleans, September 2005

   ... And God said, "Let there be a dome in the midst
   of the waters" and into the dome God put

   the poor, the addicts, the blind and the oppressed.
   God put the unsightly sick and the crying young

   into the dome and the dry land did not appear.
   And God allowed those who favored themselves

   born in God's image to take dominion over
   the dome and everything that creeped within it

   and made them to walk to and fro above it
   in their jumbo planes and in their copy rooms

   and in their conference halls. And then
   God brooded over the dome and its multitudes

   and God saw God's own likeness in the shattered
   tiles and the sweltering heat and the polluted rain.

   God saw everything and chose to make it very good.
   God held the dome up to the light

   like an open locket and in every manner called
   the others to look inside and those who saw

   rested on that day and those who didn't
   went to and fro and walked up and down

   the marsh until the loosened silt gave way
   to a void, and darkness covered the faces with deep sleep.

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