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Intercession
Christian Century, April 5, 2005 by Jean Janzen
Intercession Winter dawn pinks even this dirty air, here where the currents of the world stall between mountain ranges. We awaken inhaling fumes and dust, the calls of crows, breath and prayers from around the globe. A child in church, I knelt with the congregation, leaned into the wails of women around me pleading for the son lost to Chicago, for Hiroshimo's victims, the girl with the iron lung. They would begin on a pitch around middle C and slowly rise with arched phrases into a high tremolo toward the amen, as though reaching to heaven. Now the sun tears the gray veil, and doves repeat their soft, low moaning, for heaven is nearer than we think--in the undersides of leaves and in their shine, warmth on my shoulder, scent of bread. Even in that sick, black night when a man stood in the center of the lane, his arms out, pleading for the headlights to come in, as we stood beside him, now in a silent heap, his boots flung off, as we breathed "mercy," as we breathed "help."
Jean Janzen
COPYRIGHT 2005 The Christian Century Foundation
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