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Ferris, Jim / Facts of life
(2005)
A communion of bones, p. 12
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A Communion of Bones In 1994 a hurricane turned inland and parked over Georgia. Days of heavy rains led to widespread flooding, severe enough to float long-buried coffins out of their graves. Jesus never broke his bones- so the legend holds. Together till the end, his bones, those holy, holy bones. Jesus walked away from death on weight-bearing bones- The weight of the world upon his head, on holy, heavy bones. I'll have a bushel of bones today, I'll have a bonemeal meal. Doctors and preachers and old treaty rights, bones float away in a flood In the night-they flee their earth-freed coffins and rejoin the waters, Back in the flow, out in the world, bones once again on the move. 12
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