POEM AND PHOTO BY ED NORTHEN

“Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” John 12:24

Jesus

grain of wheat

acquiescing to death

The path

unimagined

unexpected

instituting a new paradigm

abolishing fear

to those who accede

the certitude of realms

affirmed

as Lazarus testified

a new reality

for which all are destined

a foreign province

accessed

through the portal

of liminal spaces