The day of judgement is that threshold moment, when all the past, with the accumulated history of triumph and tragedy contained in it, is swept away to make way for a new world. I wanted to create a sense of the uncertain shifting of the ground under our feet by having three lines come to a stop and then start a new movement at the end of each stanza, forcing the reader to rebalance. The images are those classic images from Revelations of the wheat ready for harvest, the earthquakes and hail sweeping away what was. I see the day of judgement as a process of purification in some way, as much as a leap of faith into a new kind of life. estory

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