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

[Elaine Brown]

Yes! It¹s powerful, slow building (but engaging right from the start),
moving.


On 3/8/07 2:39 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:

> It's incredible, isn't it?
>>  
>> From:  Elaine Brown <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>
>>  
>> 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 
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>>> > 
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>>> vj>   ) 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>>> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
>>> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
>>> I  Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
>>> star!  
>>> Friedrich Nietzsche
>>> 
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