The Deposition Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Dust storm we thought a brown swarm	A
plugging the lungs or a locust cloud	B
but this was a collapse a slow sinking	C
to deeper brown and deeper still like the sky	D
seen from inside a well as we are lowered down	E
and the air twisting and tearing at itself	F
But it was done And the body hung there	G
like a butchered thing naked and alone	H
in a sudden hush among the ravaged air	G
The ankles first slender blood caked	I
pale in the sullen dark legs broken	J
below the knees blue bruises smoldering	C
to black And the spikes We tugged iron	K
from human flesh that dangled like limbs	L
not fully hacked from trees nudged	M
the cross beam from side to side until	N
the sign that mocked him broke loose	O
It took all three of us We shouldered the body	P
to the ground yanked nails from wrists	Q
more delicate it seemed than a young girl s	R
but now swollen gnarled black as burnt twigs	S
The body so heavy for such a small man	T
was a knot of muscle a batch of cuts	U
and scratches from the scourging and down	E
the right side a clotted line of blood	V
the sour posca clogging his ragged beard	W
the eyes exploded to a stare that shot	X
through all of us and still speaks in my dreams	Y
I know who you are	Z
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So we began to wash	A2
the body wrenching the arms now stiff	B2
and twisted to his sides unbending	C
the ruined legs and sponging off the dirt	C2
of the city sweat urine shit all the body	P
gives from the body laying it out straight	D2
on a sheet of linen rank with perfumes	E2
so that we could cradle it haul it	F2
to the tomb The wind shouted	V
The foul air thickened I reached over	G2
to close the eyes I know who you are	Z

B H Fairchild

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