H O L Y B L O O D
A CNN special gave us the
news:
Jesus and Mary Magdalene
married; authority
speculates, there could be
a long line
of descendants wandering
with blood
that was holy,
and DNA from a time
kept secret for such a long
time.
That there would be
children was a new
alert that thousands might
be holy
as established by the
authority
of an analysis of the blood
proving divinity’s direct
line
through generations, a line
across nations and a time
of battlefields and blood
glutting the news;
sometimes authority
declared the wars unholy.
All civilizations had holy
ones, an infinite line
blessed by authority,
with divinity that exceeds
time.
They were lauded with news
of gifts defying flesh and
blood.
Jewish, Kurdish, Armenian,
Syrian blood,
American Indian, too, and
many holy
races were erased in
efforts not news,
to extinguish a number of
lines
of peoples rooted in time
and galaxies of celestial
authority.
Now that media suggests
with authority
Jesus and Mary Magdalene
shared their blood,
a diaspora of DNA
throughout countries and time
could find migrants in
ditches holy,
refugees’ capsizing boats
gripping news,
their scattered divinity in
headlines.
It is a holy time.
It aligns with the heart’s
authority—
the heart that pumps news
of Jesus in the blood.
Alixa Doom has published in numerous
magazines. Her chapbook manuscript, titled Cedar Crossings, was awarded the 2009
Blue Light Poetry Prize and published in 2010. Her first full-length book of poems, A Slow Dissolve of Egrets, was published
by Red Dragonfly Press in 2014. She moved
in 2011 from her home of many years in the Minnesota River Valley to South
Minneapolis.
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