no one can paint God/roman guards convulsing or very drunk/corpse pallor belies presence of resurrection life/Jesus is Lord/like a bad dream/Christ rises to frighten liberal atheists/science-based, rules-based/Jesus is Lord/or is he a floating clown?/look, mom—no hands!/weird liminal landscape/no trees, no nature/massive stone/solar-lunar penumbra/arterial robes/wounds/christians suck/ultimate apparition/Jesus is Lord/falling down VS. rising up/Romans on angel dust/outer space brought near/win some lose some/where are His apostles?/Jesus is Lord/read Romans, read Hebrews/centuries of religious war/all sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven/it’s just Mithraism/forgive them they know not what they do/it’s just a mystery cult/Jesus is lord/our father which art in heaven/satan falls from heaven like lightning/all power is given unto me/flying spaghetti monster/religion is a crutch for the weak/behold I am alive forevermore, amen

Isenheim Altarpiece
M.  Grünewald, 1512

PROMPT 27: write your own poem that describes a detail in a  painting, and that begins with a grand, declarative statement.