Will Emerge Unscathed Light at the Seam

from Raleigh Review 5.1 (Spring 2015)

Stages of Anger Grieving Deep Widow Poems

POEM | Joseph Bathanti

Light at the Seam

This is the afterlife, threshold of oblivion: a blacktop crest on Pine Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky, US Route 119 burning north through the heart of coal until it plays out, frozen, in DuBois, PA. Out of gauzy lavender fog, the wakened sun swoons in white robes: Jesus, flanked by Moses and Elijah, transfigured, up into a high mountain apart. Deep within, miners suspire, shake light at the seam.

Will Emerge Unscathed Light at the Seam

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Raleigh Review 5.1 (Spring 2015)