May 2021

the pastor says
we are having church
and I begin to wonder what it means to
possess a thing you cannot touch

I caught the holy ghost once
after chasing him in the back pews
held onto him long enough to convince my mother of salvation
then...

First, study lungs. See lungs in trees, bronchial the limbs, packed cells cycling carbon dioxide. Recall the lesson of two students standing shoulder to shoulder, shuffling in tandem to demonstrate the lining of the lung
clung to the wall of the...