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Praise prepositions
Christian Century, Nov 16, 2004 by Jeanne Murray Walker
Praise prepositions Going down the list: after against among around, I think how trivial they are, how low their self-esteem, how like safety pins they merely connect. Prepositions are the paid help we're not allowed to talk to, the maids in black uniforms who pass hers d'oeuvres at parties. Or rather, if we could laugh together, they, would be the forbidden joy leaping like sparks between us. Who can survive without connection? All winter, green waits for the sun to wake it from its nap and so we sits sunlight lies on the grass. Even the simplest jar connects--jar under moonlight, on counter, jar in water. Imagine prepositions in the Valley of Dry Bones stitching the femur to the heel, the heel to the foot hone. And afterwards they got up to dance. Between, beside, within may yet keep the chins and breasts from tumbling off Picasso's women. If I could, I would make prepositions the stars of a book, like the luminary traveling the navy sky the night sweet Jesus lay in his cradle, pulling the nameless, devious kings toward Bethlehem, and us behind them, trekking from the rim of history toward Him.
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