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

[Anny Ballardini]

Re: [New-Poetry] Todd Davis from the Writer's AlmanacIt's incredible, isn't it?
  From: Elaine Brown 
  Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:21 PM


  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.


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