Best Skittish Poems

‘We played wedding songs,
and you didn’t dance,
so we played funeral songs,
and you didn’t weep’

Luke 7:32b

Scribes and Pharisees, lean in.
They lean away, their fingertips at play,
nimble, with no paper cut. The pipers toot
out a jig and they scowl; then a dirge
and they skirt. Skittish of prophetic...

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