Capabilities of Water


WHAT HE DOES WITH HIS DREAM

He wants a quiet divorce
and then he has that dream.
…y le pondrás su nombre Jesús.
Any dream makes a mess, no?

¿Cada sueño hace un fracaso?
Joseph brings it out slow
in his dream/breath.
He says yes to what can’t be seen.

Jim Bodeen
12 October 2013


DESERT RIVER RUN

Jesus can ride with us
but no special treatment.
He’d be insulted. Like
anybody else, ok? Pero

también esto está en la Biblia
y tenemos que reconocerlo.
So says el Cubano
Justo Gonzalez,

one of our guides. Karen says
it’s more believable this way.
Nothing unbelievable, I say back.
It’s only unbelievable

because it’s all believable.
Reclaiming reality is theology’s job.
What it is. Jesus,
what say you of the imagination?

This is a basement church.
Ten of us. Two languages.
The poet of late coffee and oranges
talking two ways—

Consciousness and imagination.
He chose imagination.
Wouldn’t I cash in my travel miles
for lyric and wonder.

Jim Bodeen
11-12 October 2013


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