Chris Bursk
Chris Bursk’s poetry was first published in The Sun in 1977. He was a teacher at Bucks Community College and the author of sixteen books of poetry, including With Aeneas in a Time of Plague, which was published in July. He lived in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania, and died on June 21, 2021, at the age of seventy-eight.
— From September 2021
Poetry
My Savior Jesus
Not Jesus on the cross / but Jesus the boy / by himself, shivering, gazing into the water, / his hand cupping his scrotum, / the puzzling extra organ / attached outside his body. / I could believe in this Jesus.
September 1992
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