It is Written

Cherry

By Ewan

Wed, 10 Aug 2016
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It is written.

Curlicued and sinuous, in ink and blood,

on parchment and vellum,

bound in bones and leathery skin.

 

It is written,

Hellenic or Latinate, in Thrace or Rome

by devout and holy,

cramped by bones and leathery skin.

 

It is written,

Demotic and heretic in Spain or France,

the saintly and sinners

burnt to bones from leathery skin.

 

It is written,

unlikely and lunatic, on plates of gold,

by Joseph or Hyrum,

found near bones and leathery skin.

 

It is written,

but not by gods.

 

 

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Submitted by seashore on

I love the language in this.

Submitted by catherine poarch on

The title caught my attention, thinking of that moment in Lawrence of Arabia. I loved the stretch of history in this, though I don't recognise all the names, plus the repetition through time. God and religion, not always the same thing. Liked it a lot.