Monday, May 13, 2024

rewrite of "amen!"

 Amen!

Spitting my blood into the sink, I think

I must have been sucker-punched by god or something else

important and ancient. 

The blood burns the way ichor would on human skin.

Fizzing in between teeth: red bubbles

that pop when I open my lips

to voice the scripture I was given:

a poem that comes out in a choked gurgle.

I run the water, and then watch

as my blood mixes 

and becomes pink, then clear, 

and then is swallowed 


unceremoniously 


down 


the 



drain.


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