Monday, November 10, 2014

SOCIETY'S RIVER

the minister cradles
our heads
over society's
river of indifference
and thrusts our crown
below the surface,
while invoking
the name of God
in a voice tinged
honey and lust.
Every day, he tells
us later, we live out
our baptism.
He doesn't know
the half of it.


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