A new short story: Michael and the Mustard Tree

Here's the first of a new series of short stories being written and assembled for Kindle publishing over the summer of 2013. This one is the story of a bumptious politician who is forced into practising what he preaches

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Slow revelation; by Peter Neary-Chaplin

These days revelation comes slow
seeming less to strike
and more to grow.
The temple curtain is no longer ripped
from top to floor
but unravels and frays
decays a little more
with the accelerating days.

And God
speaks less in strident tone
retreating to the substrate,
perhaps preferring time alone
with the odd centenarian whisper
or low groan,
hiding herself again
from the cooling passion of my hunt;
my meanings were like missile attacks;
her answers, now less storied,
are delegated,
spoken in a pattern of crazed luciferous cracks
revealing just the uncreated glow,
an underground lighthouse
on the wrecking rock
to which the winds of her breath blow.

From my collection My Mother is an Old Elephant available on Amazon here.