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By Scott Kinder-Pyle

“I heard a Fly buzz -when I died -“
—Emily Dickenson
“What’s the buzz?
Tell me what’s a-happening.”
—from Jesus Christ Superstar

Are you the dead one 
in perpetual disguise?—
 
(or in Perpetua’s guise?)—
 
the one in many (of her dreams)
who spoils the ointment?
 
Your fellow flies miss you
something terrible.
 
Having masqueraded with wings
your putrefaction awaits
 
Just
beyond these blinds—
 
There’s deceptive light
you won’t mind.  Simply
 
affix your little legs to the dark
Glass and let go.  Matriculate
 
into all the Cosmos—why
don’t you?—
 
and make disciples.
 
I think I saw you once being
Waved off
 
by slave-descendants in America.
You strafed one in the pulpit
and he swallowed you whole.
Scott Kinder-Pyle
Scott Kinder-Pyle
Scott Kinder-Pyle identifies as an ordained pastor in Presbyterian Church (USA), and has served as an adjunctive professor of philosophy, religion and literature at Eastern Washington and Gonzaga universities. Scott is a poet and the author of There’s No I in Debris—Except this One! In 2020 and 2021, he served as a resident chaplain at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, and has subsequently worked for Kindred and Gentiva Hospice as a Board Certified Chaplain [BCC], accountable to the Association of Professional Chaplains. Most recently, Salem Lutheran Church of Spokane’s West Central neighborhood has welcomed Scott as their interim pastor. He’s married to Sheryl going on 36 years, loves his children, Ian and Philip, enjoys films like Adaptation, ponders painting in the near future and appreciates the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas.

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Austin Wilkerson
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Really appreciate you sharing this blog.Really looking forward to read more. Awesome.

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