Who is My Enemy? Winter 2001

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I AM THAT I AM

Josh Hagedorn

and the bush burning, and the desert rolled out

as parchment beneath his smoldering feet.

He went back to the distant city and the glazed eyes of men

baked into their bodies. The flies igniting mid-air,

he stood in gleaming chambers where his voice, stuttered,

burnt to ashes in the Pharaoh's crackling ears.

And with the dust stirred into chirping swarms, the rivers

pumping blood through arid soil, he realized

how restless were the shapes of things; unsteady,

flickering, like embers strewn across a mind.

His life: a shadow in a field of glaring light,

a corpse of coal, compressed, held helpless, being drawn along

the boundless blazing white: longing for

the Word, the wound cut through a searing fog.

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