Crucifix – v2

Paper wasp

Collected from the ground

Mounted, labeled,

Perched on a pin

Against old barn board

Through the thorax

A metal spear

Poised as in flight

Hovering over the wood

Never landing

Captured from decay

Preserved, for a time,

Dust covered

Dry, brittle

Falling to the ground

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edited January 21, 2016

Crucifix – v2

posted March 4, 2004

written January 9, 200414:30

Crucifix

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/crucifix.html

thought of simultaneously with Braking on Green

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/braking-on-green.html

and Crushed

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/crushed.html

while driving on Route 393 last evening, while listening to NHPR Front Porch with interview - Poems from a Hardscrabble Life

John Walters, 2004-01-08

Award-winning poet Wesley McNair was born in Newport, New Hampshire and lived most of his life in the Granite State. His latest collection, Fire, was the co-winner of the Jane Kenyon Award for Oustanding Book of Poetry. Many of the poems were inspired by his hardscrabble youth in New Hampshire.

http://www.nhpr.org/view_content/5573/

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