Back to Corinth

We are back to Corinth,
the macellum, marketplace,
Pre-Christian paganism-
gods worshiped on street
signs
and Doctor's offices.
Sacrifices of baby blood,
flaying or wrinkled skin- sin?
free range,
organic,
grass fed beef,
charred on backyard altars.

Death appeases death.
Natural causes beget natural events.
Materialistic Naturalism.
All to keep the Creator out of Creation.

Death is not natural,
right or good....
It is not a law of relativity,
a spider web
spun on Creation's legs.
a gravity of dew
dragging silk
to dirt.
Earth,composting its shame.

It is not an intent
of God.
A mandate of man or woman
nor pearly white bite of razor teeth
against a sheltered neck
of woods that hides
a snake
in pursuit
of...
... the sneeze, fever ache,
rolling stomach.
Cancer in veins of fat,
Adipocere,

river creases tunneling skin,
are not naturally from God,
but from Eve's ravishing bite
and Adam's acquiescence.

I am stalked
from office to lab
from test to pharmacy....
little resurrection of pills.

A disorder of God's creation:
the cough a sign of death-
a blackened death
mirrored
in our humanity
our father's death-
Adam
slave of soiled sin,
dead in dust in a puff of wind.

Death mirrors rebellion
in our making gods of ourselves-
a wicked queen
in an evil gilded mirror.

The illness a sign of our death.
Healings a little resurrection.
....