Bruce McAllister by The Passion a Western

Author:The Passion a Western
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-08T23:22:35+00:00

—the way the blood pours from imbedded shafts that shouldn’t allow blood to flow, the cleaving ax, the body that has no wounds at all, and yet bleeds. It should not be possible, this much blood—

The light hits him again—hits us too—and he sees (as we see)—the truth: More blood than any single body could hold….

The blood of a hundred hearts pounding to fill what cannot be filled….

Like a dozen crucifixions—

Like a hundred wide-eyed children drained like sides of beef—

Like a thousand women in their monthly cycles—

The litany goes on and on, moving and miraculous, but a little tedious; and when he tries, he can’t get it to stop.

When it does, he’s exhausted and alone. Even the hunchbacks are gone from the pews.

He feels the misgivings once more, but goes ahead and steps up to the third saint.

The eyes have been gouged out. Black blood drains from the sockets to the figure’s naked feet.

Black blood? The metaphoric darkness of our blindness? The true color of our suffering and lack of grace?

He’s not sure about it, but they’re all good possibilities, aren’t they? Auteur directors aren’t the only ones who can see.

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