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Take Up Thy Bed

Take Up Thy Bed

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He felt the spirit of the waters move.

They heaved around inside his heart and veins,

Inside his Tuesday ribs.  Their goal, to prove

That God persists, becomes thumped purpose strains

Ezekiel finds are fighting through his chest,

Isaiah throbs throughout his world and ours,

That Miriam feels flowing from her breast,

That John (the Principalities and Powers

Exploding in his banishment) still now

Again delivers making Augustine

A paleness in his primness.  Dream and vow

Both bring conviction to a martyr’s scene.

  Bethesda of the auricles of heart

    Moves tidal-like before long logic’s start.

© Phillip Whidden

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