Resurrection iBodies

Resurrection iBodies By Mark D. Stucky I laundered my iPhone the other day, left in a pants pocket bound for washer glory. After all the agitation and spin ceased, below the damp graveclothes, I found its corpse, cold and dead, circuitry and battery drowned. Ashes to ashes, suds to suds. How our lives seem to rely on our phones. How anxious we feel about sudden loss! But fear not, iCloud carried a backup. After purchasing and registering a newer model, restoring from the heavenly Cloud began. Soon, all my old apps, photos, and music miraculously appeared on my new phone. My old phone’s configuration, its personality, its spirit, its soul, resurrected in the new model. The same soul in an upgraded body, newer, sleeker, faster, better, more glorious. A promise to us all. (First published in Time of Singing, 48:1 (Spring 2021), p. 30. See also my poem "Bringing Heaven to Earth" and my visual poem “Haiga for the Heavenbound.”)