Language (short poem)

[Wetzelbill]

This is still a work in progress. -WB

LANGUAGE
a bill wetzel joint

“In the beginning there was Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1, “The Word Became Flesh”


the Word is indivisible, seething in our bones
flowing allure through our veins

the Word was God.
the Word is God.

one Word can change the world.

punish

in aurora light, horses whisper footsteps through frigid cutbanks and coulees
King Herod dismounts on a ridge, glassing the snowy land beneath him

200 soldiers
200 Holy Innocents

Sheridan ordered the procession into Bethlehem. Sand Creek. He
was at Sabra and Shatila. He ghosted Srebenica.

Language breathes history

genocide infanticide deicide

the Word is sacred
the Word is broken

relocation assimilation termination