Tag Archives: Valley of Dry Bones

The question of Lazarus

Posted on March 28, 2020 by

“Tell me, mortal,
can these dry bones live?”
Lazarus, coughing and blinking
replies, or would
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Year A Lent 5: Lazarus and other resurrections

Posted on April 6, 2014 by

Of course, they all would ask him about it, after the event. What was it like, being dead? Lazarus would tell them, “I don’t know what I can say to you about that. I can tell you what it was … Continue reading →

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Dry Bones

Posted on April 5, 2014 by

I cried so long my very bones were dry; I couldn’t raise my head, lay loose-limbed, sunken. I heard a voice cry, “Prophesy!” My body jumped, of its own volition, to attention, knocking the stale breath out of me with … Continue reading →

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Hallowe’en

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

The day before, the bones scatter on the valley floor, helped by the clean-up vulture crew, laid out to dry in the sun. There is a photograph hanging of the witch of Endor, grotesque in its details, she is all … Continue reading →

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