From the Cross to Eternity this Saturday

Audrey Gorton

From the cross to eternity this Saturday,

we watched a man sip another’s suicide cocktail, 

saw a tornado and its one hundred halos in Oklahoma.

A funeral can be a party now. Death can get caught

on camera like a shoplifter, pockets stuffed

with God knows what  — and He does, no doubt,

know how a woman stamped two lives on a wall after

sending her car into the brick like a gun. No matter.

I was late for work. There was only time to imagine

a blue plastic sled, pressing my cheek against it.