Outrageous Easter,
a man back from the dead after two days
down in some subterranean nightmare
where the wicked live forever and a day.
Resurrection is crazy,
but is it crazy enough to be true?
It is believed to be true by people
who just as likely would believe it false
from another source.
Case in point: Anastasia Romanov*
Could her life, either as story
or skin and bones flesh have crawled
out of the rat-ta-tat gunfire’s bitter sweet
smoke, June 17, 1918.
She appeared alive out of the dead
to people who wanted to believe
Anastasia still lived,
maybe myth, maybe mortal,
who knew.
We know.
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*Anastasia Romanov, along with her father
Czar Nicholas II and her mother and brother
and sisters were executed by the Bolsheviks
in the basement of a house in Ekaterinburg,
Russia on July 17, 1918. Ten years later a
woman claiming to be the Romanov daughter
surfaced in New York City. Some Russian
emigres believed her. In 1956 the movie
Anastasia starring Ingrid Bergman who won
the Academy Award for her portrayal the
Russian Duchess. With the development of
DNA testing her claim was later disproved.
The woman died as Anna Anderson Manahan in
Charlottesville, Virginia in 1984.
Resurrection (from Latin) = to stand again
Anastasia (from Greek) = to stand again