Good Friday For The Foreigner: A Poem

So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners. (Source: The Gospel According to Matthew).

Good Friday For The Foreignerby Mitali Perkins

The news spreads through our tents and shacks like birdsong:We have some soil.

It's strewn with shards of ceramic,broken bits of pots and cups,clay of no use or value.I'll pick them up, clean the ground with my hands,and make a holy place.I'll water the dirt with my tears.

Who paid for it?

The piles of...