Cold – dark gray countryside
The sea shone pale
Stone table splits
End to end
Lion’s body missing
Willing, innocent victim arouses
Death working backwards

© 2018 Jason A. Muckley

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If you have ever read the classic children’s story by the late, great novelist, poet, philosopher and theologian C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, then you would understand the allusion captured in this poem. I pull out some of my favorite imagery from this passage in chapter 15 and condense it into its simplest parts for a beautiful retelling of one of the most pivotal parts of the whole series.

Re-reading the series again as an adult now with my own children there are always new subtleties one re-visits older and wiser that have new poignancy in a new stage of life. It is all so powerful.