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You sit naked on the fire escape framed by the open window - a study in gray repose against sky and city not yet reflected blue by bonnets, dresses, suits, congregate voices. Sunlight begins to breach the horizon silhouetting your breasts still young in angle and weight. A line of three steeples in the west parallels your Cesarean scar. Their pealing bells echo around the canyon of your womb awakening your dead. For hours through masses and pilgrimage steps you are drawn this way: statuesque; open to the eyes of huddling penitents - you wondering at their faith, wandering after yours. The body stabbed awake by shards of cool linen knows your absence before its eyes sharpen to points of sight. |
Scott M. Burnam had this to say about Easter Tableau:Easter Tableau began as an exercise in writing from the visual arts. The early drafts provided many of the concrete images in the poem, which were then mixed with a hypothetical question: How would a modern Mary reflect upon the events leading up to and including her son's resurrection? |
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