Cemetery Angel by Giulio Monteverde
(Regarding the Boston Marathon bombing)
in one terrible tick of the doomsday clock
a manchild vanished
in mists of explosive detestable animus
sending forth agonies
rivers of tears rushing headlong and over
rock ledges of piety
drowning forgiveness
in pounding cascades of venom and vengeance
small pieces of him reappeared in the form
of two hundred bullets
ballistic projectiles delivered of punishment
raw retribution
riddled the vile craven carcass
we knew as assassin number one
more pieces of him found staunch form
in cold steel
links of reckoning chain to manacle
cowardly bomb-laying wrists
and urine stained ankles
of pissant assassin number two
the pieces of him then regathered themselves
into innocent essence
righteous, rejoined
to coddling undying soft memories
of a mother and sister so brutally maimed
and a father with holes in his heart
their little boy
ever and always
their stalwart avenger
(originally posted April 2013)
