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Article: CROSS GARDEN.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Glare ice on the asphalt north of Prattville
kept the back road deadly where acres
of whitewashed crosses shaped Reverend Rice's
holy ground. Upstairs the stars were waking,
and a car taking this curve would need wings
to keep from losing the earth if a foot
touched the brake. It was pine slopes and red
clay the self-made preacher laced with Christmas
lights and splashed with scripture. It was his
nightmare not even Bosch or Jimmy Swaggart's
TV scare team could have dreamed up: scarlet
Barbies dangled from a gibbet painted
dead from sex, a Kenmore refrigerator
read NO ICEWATER IN GEHENNA.
Ab Rice was beet-faced, ...
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