Baptism

Lent 2017

Baptism

Meg Eden (bio)

Baptism

Fukuoka, Summer 2011

Our suited pastor,
standing in the ocean:

water dark up to his thighs.
From the shore, he looks

like a lone oyster buoy,
returning from a storm.

Kaylee beside him:
an American sky-scraper.

Behind them, a still horizon blue.
Strange, this water: the same

that buried five cities, now
over Kaylee’s shoulders,

a celebration. From the shore,
we the church stand, holding

our shoes, feet bare
in the sand, waiting. Out east,

new cities will be built.
Inside Kaylee, a renovated

city is filled.
She rises from the water.

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