The Garden
December 31, 2020
Here was the gardener, he whose hand had laid
The body someplace else
A servant waiting standing, and before her
Questioning herself
Gone Peter, and that unnamed one beloved,
They who had come running
Had seen, believed, a plainly staggering event,
He was not now here dead
But Thomas, absent Thomas, he improvidently howled
A loud rousing debate, and even after
A common voiced accord among his honest fellows
And followers, lended its weight against his single
Variance. This band who by immediate experience
Had come to understand…..
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Still stood here in the garden, Mary, phased, a woman
Grieved, has deemed him an attendant menial churl
At gardening as he should
Has asked him: tell me, where is it you’ve laid him
I shall go there, decide the things appropriate.
Her answer moves her, answers all the askings
Of which she would;
In: Mary.
Her name declaiming detonates: Rabbonai!