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Kyrie Queries
Is Christianity a freckleupon the body of Christ?An infinitesimal sliverof a cake religion sliced?Is Christ stashed in a boxwith doctrines as its locks?The answer’s are anyone’s guess,but I bet they’re Yes, Yes, Yes. Mario A. Pita
Rose Cosmos
A rose that lasts a day may never fretabout its afterlife but simply bloom,not sensing its impending end as threat,not sinking into existential gloom. It needn’t seek its purpose in a creed,as of a rose arising from the dead,nor feel … Continue reading
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Hand-me-downs
For years I wore the tattered hand-me-downs,beliefs that other people said were true,beliefs extolled by kings with gilded crowns,beliefs that harmed as though a toxic brew; The hand-me-downs I wore were of a Godwho chose some people with whom he … Continue reading
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Lawbreaker
All the miracles that people claim You did, like walk on water, make it wine, give vision to the blind and heal the lame, make one fish last so multitudes could dine; that broke the laws of physics when You … Continue reading
Thorn Crown
Discretion is advised: this real-life drama is of mental, sexual, and religious trauma. The brain, it seems to me, is like an eye that sees the thoughts and feelings passing by as though they were projected on a screen inside … Continue reading
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Depictions
As I can’t eat a photograph of rice, images of You have failed to feed, and clinging to them has a hefty price, distracting me from what I feel I need: Your presence like the air that I inhale, invisible … Continue reading
Compassion Blossoms
* Awareness seems to bloom from a spinal stem and fills with things to touch and taste and see, immersed within the lusciousness of them, like floral nectar savored by a bee. Yet it’s submerged in bitter flavors too– the … Continue reading
Maternal Litany
For ages, You’ve been called our Father parent, so that Your Motherhood is less apparent. I picture You with word pairs in this psalm, as feminine—the Universe’s Mom. Firmament Womb Blessing Singer Indifference Antidote Tender Wind Cosmic Music Melody Homeland … Continue reading
Implied Flames
It’s terrible, I feel, the quote from Sartre that “hell is other people,”—cynical and blind to people as an Artist’s art or cosmic spawn and, either way, a miracle, because it is a wonder that there are such beings as … Continue reading
Grim Hymn
“Convert to our religion and accept our God to be the only one that’s true, or after life it’s hell you should expect, with everlasting flames in store for you. Our doctrines were dictated from above, beyond all questioning. Our … Continue reading
Snapshot Couplets 