He Rests in Rising
What hard travail God does in death!
He strives in sleep, in our despair,
And all flesh shudders underneath the nightmare
of His sepulcher.
The earth shakes, grinding its deep stone;
All night the cold wind heaves and pries;
Creation strains sinew and bone
Against the dark door where He lies.
The stem bent, pent in seed, grows straight and stands.
Pain breaks in song.
Surprising the merely dead, graves fill with light
Like opened eyes. He rests in rising.
~ Wendell Berry
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