In Memoriam Aaron Bushnell

Speaking through his own,
Two million spirits cried:
A dead and living choir.
My heart’s a stone, a stone,
Compared with his who died.
And what if the flaming car
That raptured Tishbe’s seer
From Jordan’s settling flood
(Elisha standing near)
And purified his blood
For where God’s Angels are,
Caught Aaron in its fire?


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