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SAUL: Before the Damascus Road

Joyce Carr Stedelbauer  

A murderous sneer scarred a handsome face,

mouth like a semitar  blade as he guarded the tunics of the terrorists.

A strong sun on square shoulders forged determination to iron.

On the rocky mountainside stone missels glinted white and sharp.

Vultures hung in the air.

Stephen, the accused, had argued a lengthy defense, a thunder

of ancient names twisted somehow into new cloth until he

bound up Christ, that rebel rabbi, with Israel’s venerated Kings.

You, Saul, a student of Gamaiel, knew the Law, seized the duty

to fight this new Way, this pitiful rabble of believers

 growing like barley in a newly ploughed field.

You resume raiding their homes, drag them all away

 to prison, men and women alike; surprise attacks, cut them down,

their screams and cries discordant music to your ears.

 


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