Reformation of the Protestants

 

I’ll nail my thesis to the church door

and hope the hammering itself

will wake them--the poet monks 

who have kept vows of silence

 

while the noise of priestly

prose and sermonizing

fills the sanctuary like clanging smoke

 

and God, like a fly, skims a stained glass window

for a seam of slightest sky and escape

out into holy air.

 

-- rLp --

Comments

[Diane Sirmans]

Seriously love this one! I can't even explain the emotion I feel when I read it... it resonates with my soul and my desire to yell "grace" in a crowd of Pharisees, yet when I ask God to "try me, and see if there be any hurtful ways in me"... I am but a Pharisee. May I post this to my FB wall?