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POEM: Resurrection Buzz

By: Scott Kinder-Pyle

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May 8, 2019

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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.

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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.