{"id":14285,"date":"2018-03-26T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14285"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:31:43","slug":"poet-wrestling-with-the-beating-in-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14285","title":{"rendered":"Poet Wrestling with the Beating in the Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

You say the horse has to die & come back<\/p>\n

_____<\/span>seven times<\/p>\n

to face the beating in the grave.<\/p>\n

_________________________________________<\/span>& when she keeps dying,<\/p>\n

_________________________<\/span>You say something suddenly will come to her<\/p>\n

____________<\/span>when they ask her name.<\/p>\n

At dusk she arises & rings the bells of coffins<\/p>\n

to remind those who turned away<\/p>\n

when she drew the highest number of times<\/p>\n

they’d have to say the name of the high place,<\/p>\n

where angels & aliens are the same<\/p>\n

_______<\/span>unresolved<\/p>\n

_____________<\/span>salvation.<\/p>\n

You say: consider this a death <\/em><\/p>\n

& listen. <\/em>There is a number that draws her<\/p>\n

closer to the blossoms You hang<\/p>\n

inside the coffins. The blindfold You place<\/p>\n

when she touches the wrong face. You say she has to lie<\/p>\n

still inside another’s coffin as she’s beaten in the grave.<\/p>\n

The heavens are really loud today as she’s beaten in this grave.<\/p>\n

You say: Even at the bottom of an emptied coffin here I stand. <\/em>Ask<\/p>\n

her name. For all the times she denied the faint,<\/p>\n

purple lights that interlace<\/p>\n

hoof through hand. Beat<\/p>\n

this grave. Ask her<\/p>\n

her name.<\/p>\n

___________________<\/span>& she will listen for you,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

____________________________________<\/span>Great Concealed.<\/p>\n

___________________________________________<\/span>Greatest Other,<\/p>\n

_______________________________________________<\/span>Protector behind<\/p>\n

______________________________________________________<\/span>the Absolute.<\/p>\n

Call me the fire hailing down on you. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me alien
\nrebel who gave
\nthe shield to you <\/em><\/p>\n

& your enemies. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me not the gun you fire. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me line of fire
\nwhen I’m staring you in the face <\/em><\/p>\n

& you can’t see
\nwhat I made of you. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me reveal. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me resealing. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me the seal & the horses beneath the seal. <\/em><\/p>\n

Tell me not what you find. I made it within you. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me torn angel, call me war horse, dying upon the gate. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me first fire in the woods
\nwho beat into shape <\/em><\/p>\n

your hand & forged an axe
\nin the thicket. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me your horses in the darkness<\/em><\/p>\n

& there is a great fire among you. <\/em>Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me the terror in your horse’s eyes<\/em><\/p>\n

when I come to save her life.<\/em> Emet.<\/p>\n

Call me the beating<\/em><\/p>\n

your horse alive once<\/em><\/p>\n

more in the grave. <\/em><\/p>\n

Emet. Tell me your name. <\/em><\/p>\n

Emet. Tell me your name & arise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emet. Arise. <\/em><\/p>\n

Emet.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Rosebud Ben-Oni<\/a><\/h6>\n

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Note: The word “Emet” means “Truth” in Hebrew; its root verb is “aman” which means to support. In Jewish prayer, “Dayin HaEmet” refers to The Righteous Judge, and “Baruch Dayan Emet” is said in times of loss and mourning. It is also said at the end of the V’ahavta to denote that the first person is not the congregant reading but the words of HaShem.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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