emergent church cafe yin yang

one for the Phoenix Project -- an "emergent church" whence I have received social and spiritual sustenance



I have been shanghaied
into a hurricane whose eye is Jesus' swarthy baby-face
temple terrorist
water-whisperer
can't make up his mind whether he's dead or alive
drops plumb-line heart-cord straight down
to core of fiery planet
pulling up Earth energy to ground my feet
to glue my ass to Terra Firma, aquaderma
perma frost, Pentecost
found and lost, dead sea-tossed
toss your cross and “why” your “I”s
tolerate, equivokize, love has sprung, hate’s demise
trembling trickster, Mistress Mister
rocket-launch, mighty paunch
politician’s selfless lies, campaign speech anesthetize
“We gave them food stamps, now they’re pissed –
Fascist Muslim Socialists”
civil union, pork communion, pulpits, gulp it, sure as shit
rich man, poor man, bastard, priest

and this is how it was preached in Jesus’ time, in every
Bhagavad Gita sonnet rhyme, Buddhist Sutra, Taoist mountain
Jewish volume, atheist commune –

settle with your brother, give of yourself to your neighbor
if she is in need, indeed, undoubtedly
she is your savior