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In Time of Illness

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Contain belief breaking, my new God
before it spread out, into countryside
to fever the unprotected, un-with any
antiviral medicine or mask, who died

touched by the airborne task of love;
constrain, bind, hold it back. Blood
flows on, so might faith in you, plied
with infectious emotion. Low-grade,

or high, our spirit rises up to sunlight,
sin of the weather if intemperate but
too soon lowered into night’s late cup:
golden-meaned, Lazarene, about

to abandon mortuary evening again.
Go; infect the neighbour then his wife
with an agency to make old life sick
to realize one way it was going to end.

Disease-friend, my God, bed me now
so I may lie lost on my wounded side
and feel a mutating hope metastasize;
the body’s a carrier of the Holy Ghost.

 

Page(s) 348-349

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