[New-Poetry] Todd Davis from the Writer's Almanac

[Elaine Brown]

Thank you for posting that, Anny!


On 3/8/07 6:39 AM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:

> Poem: "Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church" by Todd Davis from Some Heaven.
> © Michigan State University Press. Reprinted with permission. (buy now
> <http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&amp;s=fj6,2gis,dv,4kje,g9f8,3hrs,fxvj> )
> 
> Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church
> 
> Pray for the Smucker family. Their son Nathaniel's coat and shirt were
> caught in the gears while grinding grain. Nothing would give, so now
> he is gone. We made his clothes too well. Perhaps this is our sin.
> 
> Pray for the Birky family. Their son Jacob fell to his death in the
> granary. He was covered in corn before they could stop the pouring—
> chest crushed by the weight, seed spilling from his mouth. We hope
> something will grow from this, besides our grief.
> 
> Pray for the Hartzler family. Their youngest has left the church and no
> longer believes that Christ died for her sins. She buys clothes at the
> mall. Tongue pierced, nose as well. Her shirt shows her belly where a
> ring of gold sprouts. We pray she will remember that her Lord's side
> was pierced, that His crown held no gold, only the dried blood of His
> brow.
> 
> Pray for the Miller family. Last week their daughter, who lives in
> Kalona, lost her baby at birth. Child only half-formed: head turned the
> wrong way; heart laid on the outside of her chest; one leg little more
> than an afterthought. Lord, help them know that life may come again,
> that we are all made whole in heaven.
> 
> Pray for the Stutzman family. Their son fights in the war. We call him
> back to the Prince of Peace, to our Savior who knelt to gather the
> slave's ear, brushed the dirt away, lifted it to the side of his flushed face.
> May we leave no scars. May we ask no blessing for the killing done in
> His name.
> 
> 
> Anny Ballardini
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> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star!
> Friedrich Nietzsche
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