Farm scenes earth scenes
Decay disintegration and death
Hold holy hands with life
Grow and shapeshift into
Blooms and fruiting things
Medicine
A magical alchemy in the dark moist
Interior underground unseen
A breakdown
Feeding regeneration
What if the body of rabbi Yeshua
Went back into the soil
The torn pieces of his flesh
Feeding the olive trees of the land
Where his body lay anointed with oils of
Spikenard and lavender
By the women who loved him
And treasured his teachings in their hearts
What if instead of a sky God
The stories told of an earth god
Medicine man lover magician
What if the songs and stories of sinners and
Saintly women were recorded
Singing of love and liberation
Integration and regeneration
Would the olive groves stand
Would we have learned how to share the plenty of land
Would they still have been uprooted
Would they be with us now
Emmanuel
Jaclyn Edds Konczal | December 2023