The world is wrenched on her pivot, shivering. Politicians and preachers are standing on their heads, shitting out of their mouths. Lucky for us Stephen Mitchell has restored the Gospels, returning the Jesus I imagined at fourteen, offering up my clumsy life in a damp shroud of hormones. Most of all he said, "Pay attention" -- Buddha nodding from the wings. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WIND IN A FROLIC by WILLIAM HOWITT DIDO TO AENEAS by JOACHIM DU BELLAY PSALM 28. AD TE DOMINE CLAMABO by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 55 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE A PERFECT SONNET by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE WISHING MOON by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN |