A poem by Bennet Bergman

This poem is from Bennet's newest chapbook Minor Canyons. All of it is wonderful. I've been carrying it in my bag for the past few weeks.

7. the Men from Town

On Good Friday in San Miguel

we watch the men from town

lynch and burn a paper-mache

effigy of Judas, spangled in

dishrags and bottle rockets.

The Scoundrel, they say,

The Coward, though

on Sunday, dressed in repentance

and new clothes, they lower him

tenderly down.