Mythic Eruption

Butler, PA 7/13/24

Prompted by Pippa Oona’s reflections, here is a time and event-specific verse commemorating the Providence of our dank and yet heroic times.

7/13/24, BUTLER, PA

Shown,

made known,

a mercy that's clear

in the turn of an ear,

a bullet's high whine

spitting grace like wine

and blood, just enough,

one death to rebuff. 

A neck muscle moves;

it proves

some Hand preserving

a chieftain, mortal,

enlisted, serving

now, here. 

But darker the portal

high, severe,

where we mourn and revere

his towering compadre

on greater love's roadway,

that other

hero, our brother, 

        compelled helter-skelter 

        to build them a shelter,

        brave shield laid over

        a daughter and mother --

who (past the wild uproar)

did himself discover

Heaven's door.