Showing posts with label Mercy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercy. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2015

mercy, please

image © 2015 jennifer wagner


a red blossom, bloodied burqa,
             voice
                        buried

stoning hole shadows
awaiting execution
press my heart,
 
            crush
within me


© 2015 Jennifer Wagner


For dVerse MTB. Bjorn has invited us to do some blackout poetry. I used a book I am currently reading, Stone Crossings, by L.L. Barkat. This particular page/segment from her book brought to mind the the film The Stoning of Soraya M. If you haven't seen it, it's gut-wrenching. Honestly, I couldn't sit through all of the stoning scene.