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JOHN HORVATH Jr : REVEREND TERREBONNE PREACHES TO THE DEAF AND DUMB OF GRUNDY COUNTY
HAL SIROWITZ : Gifts
JAN OSCAR HANSON : A Wife Not Mine

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JOHN HORVATH Jr
REVEREND TERREBONNE PREACHES TO THE DEAF AND DUMB OF GRUNDY COUNTY

Bought hisself a brand new doublewide painted white as angel feathers and a red cross atop so's whomsoever might could descend to make Judgment would know foursquare whereabout to find him an' His. With purple sateen sheets--them slick 'uns-- He hung it all inside. And he called it Everyones Tabernacle of Jesus ain't no Christ, ain't God, but God's in your own self by your own soul its own Salvation on this Earth. Briefly, they was called The "Good-n-Earthy" after Terrebonne hisself. Then late one Saturday whilst he sat watchin' His favorite televised save-your-soul 19.95 Bible-n- Salvation salesman he got taken with a little lady in The corner o' the tube with her fingers just a blurrin' In the name of the Lord. Terrebonne got inspiration; Sent off for a booklet on how to sign Your way pass heaven's pearly gates; Then commenced t' study the Gospel 'cording To St. Peter's fingers til he become THE Deaf-mute preacher of the Deep South With his stubby little hands just Am- Slammin away "are ye washed in the blood Of the lamb?" and "we'll all sing hymn Number three-sixteen." Brother Terrebonne Happy as a sow in summer mud collectin' donations every Sunday service, every Wednesday evenin' fellowship, same each and every Bingo chapter and verse 'cording to the Testament Friday night with the Good-n-Earthy ladies' auxiliary (not to mention his special Rosie's Bar trip to save the lost from drink Tuesday- Thursday regular at the crossroads town past the town just down the way where he took off his collar--Terrebonne careful not to offend by a man of the cloth drinkin' sinners under the table for their good). The Lord works in mysterious ways-- or so Reverend Terrebonne would say in his own peculiar fingered way.

from Reverend Terrebonne Walker: A Dozen Southern Fired Poems Murfreesboro TN Artvilla Records 2002 and published in Mind Fire
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HAL SIROWITZ
Gifts

Father said it was better to give than to receive, which is why he liked to buy presents for himself, because then he was giving and receiving at the same time. If we gave him a shirt for Father’s Day, he would look first for the pockets for in his definition of a shirt it had to have one or it had as much social purpose as a pajama top – only to be worn in the house.

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JAN OSCAR HANSON
A Wife Not Mine

My brother the warrior, died on a distant battlefield. His wife sleeps in the garden tonight on a blanket by the pond, she's my woman now. Gave herself to me but for her heart and a memory that can't be erased, when nature's war thundered overhead. In moonlight she's a statue of ebony with a Janus' mask of hidden longings. She dreams, smiles a beam from a heart full of love for her warrior's shadow, as clouds drift passed the moon. Awakes when the fiend, in the nursery cries. I have seen those eyes before and know that my brother will never die.

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