of the universe
\nsome remnant of prayer shawl, Kippah, candle.
\nVestment, nun\u2019s habit, incense.<\/p>\n
The moon can eclipse the sun, the moon\u2019s red<\/p>\n
and the red beads around grandmother\u2019s neck
\nprefer superstition over His risen
\nbody. Did He speak of revolt, defiance,
\nand passion? What\u2019s a four-day old lamb good for<\/p>\n
if not to slaughter and bloody the door frames?<\/p>\n
The angel of death comes at midnight.
\nCamus\u2019 stranger shoots the Arab once for death.
\nFour more times for no reason at all.
\n
\n <\/p>\n
Judith Skillman is a dual citizen of US and Canada, and lives in Newcastle, Washington. Her work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Midwest Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, Zyzzyva,<\/em> and other literary journals. She is the recipient of awards from Academy of American Poets and Artist Trust. Her recent collection is A Landscaped Garden for the Addict,<\/em> Shanti Arts Press, 2021. Visit www.judithskillman.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" of the universe some remnant of prayer shawl, Kippah, candle. Vestment, nun\u2019s habit, incense. The moon can eclipse the sun, the moon\u2019s red and the red beads around grandmother\u2019s neck prefer superstition over His risen body. Did He speak of revolt, defiance, and passion? What\u2019s a four-day old lamb good for if not to slaughter [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[372],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-war-of-discord-by-rousseau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11800,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions\/11800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}