A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems by Irving Layton

Author:Irving Layton [Layton, Irving]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, General
ISBN: 9781551997117
Google: _rTOrG7zR18C
Amazon: B007EED3JA
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2012-03-06T23:00:00+00:00

The pillar of fire: their flesh made it;

It burned briefly and died — you all know where.

Now in their own blood they temper the steel,

God being dead and their enemies not.

FOR MY BROTHER JESUS

My father had terrible words for you

— whoreson, bastard, meshumad ;

and my mother loosed Yiddish curses

on your name and the devil’s spawn

on their way to church

that scraped the frosted horsebuns

from the wintry Montreal street

to fling clattering into our passageway

Did you ever hear an angered

Jewish woman curse? Never mind the words:

at the intonations alone, Jesus,

the rusted nails would drop out

from your pierced hands and feet

and scatter to the four ends of earth

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