[lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM (reworking old images)

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:08:40 -0600

THAT OLD TIME RELIGION

And now even the trees
have got religion, 
started fasting, 
turning themselves
into bony fingered preachers
prophesying death.

Nature is just Country Music played loud.
Songs
as deep in repentance
as forest floors.


Mike Geary
Memphis

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