We seven or eight from the EDS community are back from New Orleans and agree that the trip was a profound experience, though we are all still digesting the experience.
I know that Chris Wendell here at EDS asked that we share some thoughts with the Beatitudes Society.
- John Bell, member of the Episcopal Divinity School chapter of The Beatitudes Society.
No signs hang on the people of the seventh ward, (yes, seventh),
There are almost no people - just aura.
And besides, the lepers were herded together, (as pre-Katrina),
Are now diaspora-ed.
The signs are on the houses - Xs, and I daresay there was love,
Love especially from the Cajun navy,
(They were their neighbors' keepers.)
Where are the Os? Gone with the gravy?
The signs are on the houses - but unlike other glyphs -
We want to forget their translation.
"In this corner, the counter of bodies;
In that corner, the count's revelation."
The signs do not say "touch me"
But some imagine they do.
And they touch and are touched.
And the result is as a Titian roux.
John Bell
Cambridge, MA (back from New Orleans)
January 29, 2007
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