"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
Jessica Crisman
Jessica Crisman Graduated from
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a BA in English and is
currently working towards MA in English from Grand Valley State
University, Allendale, Michigan.
A mother of three children, she teaches
ACT Prep and College Prep Writing. This is her first published
poem.
Jessica Crisman
Ode to Frauds
A tisket, a
tasket
A basket
full of sin
One for you
and
One for
him
The two creep
low and stealthily
The chorus sings
out vocally
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
It beckons to
all
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Come see these
two fall
The choir
disassembles
and then there's
just one
clapping
victoriously
mocking the
Son
The soloist
sings
His melodic
voice rings
full of fear,
full of might
cheering the
dreadful sight
of the two
tumbling into prideful abyss
oblivious to the
good life that they'll surely miss.
And upon their
deathbeds
absent all
kin
they'll die
pathetically
reeking of
sin.
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