The pure Stuff

Reformation was a time

when men discovered,

in the dusty basement

of late medievalism,

a whole cellar full

of fifteen-hundred-year-old,

two-hundred proof

Grace –

bottle after bottle

of pure distillate

of Scripture,

one sip of which

would convince anyone

that God saves us

single-handedly …

Grace has to be drunk

straight:

no water,

no ice,

and certainly no ginger ale;

neither goodness,

nor badness,

not the flowers

that bloom in the spring

of super spirituality

could be allowed to enter into the case.