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Peter wept

Christian Century,  March 11, 2008  by Terry Minchow-Proffitt

Peter wept

   He stalks the dark before dawn,
   hackles up, a surly chanticleer
   with a raised blade, black
   tail feathers flicking back and forth.

   A fit clenches him whole,
   strains his red-combed head
   into one shrill remonstrance
   that scythes clean through
   night's manifold silence.
   An ear bleeds in the courtyard.

   Morning now rent,
   the sun hangs low by a wire,
   a naked bulb bearing down on this day
   the full weight of tendered debt:
   I never knew him.

   The rooster glints green;
   his round eyes dart;
   he scratches and stabs the dust
   for seed at the foot of a tree.

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