The Clown Kachina

If you are hungry then I

can Feed you love, but my

blood, or sex, or the

shell and stripes I wear,

will all leave you

nowhere.


If you are thirsty then I

will pour spirit into your

home, but I am not the

body that is bread, nor

the Savior's cup flowing

into eternity.


I am only the

skeleton on the mesa,

the clown kachina,

the voice of

headless John

calling from your plate:


"...that that decreased

I spoke of is true,

and our hunger

and thirst are

for Him."

October 1990

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