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Mark Russell Brown
Mark Brown is a member of the Board of Directors of Green River Writers and an MFA student at Spalding University. He is currently an assistant student editor for the Louisville Review. This poem originally appeared in a short-lived magazine entitled What Goes On.
Until the Resurrection
The chosen among the children
hunting eggs, killing time
until the resurrection.
I must have had the mark
that encouraged such an act–
in the safest of safe places,
on the grounds of this cathedral
where we were flushed with grace.
Sometimes in dreams, you rise
again to wrap your arms around
my waist and lift me from the grass.
Your whiskers rasp my ear, sweat
weeps from your lip, trickles
down my nape. We’re prostrate
at the cross.
Sometimes, I wish I wasn’t there
to feel the prick of penetration–
the nauseating violence and simultaneous
pleasure of your warmth and forced attention.
I still feel your fervid breath rebuke my neck.
And in the middle of the rape,
I see the watch around your wrist,
the band constricting tufts of hair.
I wonder what time Christ will come;
how long until the resurrection?
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1. Sherry Chandler&hellip replies at 12th April 2005, 1:46 pm :
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