The Burden of Graven Images by Olga Kronmeyer

Images, images, images, painted images:

painted Jesus,   with long hair,   short hair,

painted crosses,   some mere cross pieces,

some gallows,   some painted trees,   dogwood,

judases,   fruit trees;    painted Jesus or painted

angels,   hovering about the tomb,   painted Jesus feeding

millions of poor,   healing beggars,   tending dirty,

clean, all-pure infants and children,   while he sits,

stands,   bends his heart,   his hair long,   his spirit

laughing,   his flesh brooding,   his face friending—

all painted,   all idols,   all hanging,   all suspended,

all clinking silver,   burnished gold,   sun-darkened---

all painted,   fatted gold-leafed calves,

smashed by Moses on top the

stone fragments of the Lord’s poetry.


		Olga Kronmeyer
		The Burden of Graven Images
		Images, images, images, painted images: painted Jesus, with long hair, short hair, painted crosses, some mere cross pieces, some gallows, some painted trees, dogwood, judases, fruit trees; painted Jesus or painted angels, hovering about the tomb, painted Jesus feeding millions of poor, healing beggars, tending dirty, clean, all-pure infants and children, while he sits, stands, bends his heart, his hair long, his spirit laughing, his flesh brooding, his face friending— all painted, all idols, all hanging, all suspended, all clinking silver, burnished gold, sun-darkened--- all painted, fatted gold-leafed calves, smashed by Moses on top the stone fragments of the Lord’s poetry.
		Olga Kronmeyer, a native of the Catskill Mountains, has published a few poems and edited two anthologies of poetry.
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