
J Alan R
Rhythm Bone

God’s been a walkin’
in the valley of the dead,
God’s been a makin’
music with words unsaid,
God’s been a playin’
songs that clack instead,
God’s been a breathin’
life into bones long fled.
Can’t you hear that rattlin’,
dry bone on bone,
rising up from their
damned dirt deathbed?
Even among the dry it’s known,
God plays a mean set
of rhythm bone.*
Ezekiel 37:1-14
*rhythm bone, a folk instrument consisting of bones or wood that makes use of the clacking sounds produced by shaking loose bones together held in one or both hands
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