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  • Gerald Barrax (bio)

How is it that those charming connubial pairs Of pagan gods, and their offspring, have disappeared? Where are they now, when there are no more prayers Or sacrifices to them, beloved and feared? How is it that Zeus and Hera, Odin and Frigg— And lonely Atum-Ra, whose wife was his hand— Would suffer their own creatures to renege On their worship, and send them packing off to Lotus-land? If believed once, then they still must exist; If not now, they never had been real: This logic haunts me most when you insist That outside your faith, your path, there’s no appeal To any heaven; a theology so odd Should shame its subject into replacing himself as God.

Gerald Barrax

Gerald Barrax was Professor of English, Poet-in-Residence, and Editor of Obsidian at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. He is author of four volumes of poems, Another Kind of Rain, An Audience of One, The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods, and Leaning Against the Sun. In July, 1997, From a Person Sitting in Darkness: Selected and New Poems, his fifth volume, was published by the Louisiana State University Press. He has recently retired to West Chester, Pennsylvania.

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