Put To Death
for Ayla & Chet

it is she who is pulling out
like a nail from a hand upon the cross

she who has decided
it’s time to bury the affair

is it so that Easter might occur

must trust even death as Christ did

fate alone knows
what comes after
what is to spring from it

who was it with beans
and flung them away

look how they grew
what they grew into


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
2:20 a.m. 15.04.09