Besotted with Jesus
- Besotted with Jesus
Still besotted with Jesus after all these years despite the unfashionableness of such love unconscionable history of the Church sad path of pillage, persecution, crusade racism, war and rumours of war
despite heart horrors held in continuance some record and reverberation extends shimmering to the enemy (ourselves)
What a Mediterranean peasant began remains untried except in the shock and awe of saints
those human frailties, marginal men and women (Francis, Teresa, Ghandi, Mandela, Weil)
stunning the warrior Hate (healers, transformers)
Call me Christian Jew Buddhist Hindu Sufi, (whatever you like)
big fruit salad of the Spirit every flavour savoured
drenched in a common juice, culled in unnamable mind
(Krishna Wakan Tanka Gaia Dionysius Sophia) Peerless Peer
all and none of the above but still first and foremost
(who knows why?) besotted with Jesus
Susan McCaslin is a poet and Instructor of English at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C., who received her doctorate at the University of British Columbia in Twentieth-Century British Poetry in 1984. She has authored eight volumes of poetry, including A Plot of Light (2004) and At the Mercy Seat (2003). McCaslin is the editor of the anthologies A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry (1998) and Poetry and Spiritual Practice: Selections from Contemporary Canadian Poets (2002). Her published books are listed on her Web site, www.susanmccaslin.ca.
