Healing Poem # 12
Tim Gavin
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The Nazarene - medicine man
or village psychiatrist
many folks sick
or just hypochondriacs

one man in chains – enraged
mad – among tombs – tossing stones
another man stuck by a pool
unable to loosen his toes
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a woman's son dead 4 days
in the grave
the smell consumes
the crowd which said
death can't be undone