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Toni’s Song

She prays in the shower, lifts 
her face to the streaming water 
god, to the shining metallic head 

Because Last Night Was Friday Night

Because last night was Friday night 
I had to search to find a quiet place 
and when I found it I wanted to leave it 
though I wasn’t even working off a mean gin drunk. 

The Prophet’s Dream

An angel came to me and said, O Pitiable Fools! 
O Foolish Mortals! O Everlasting Damnation! 
I said, Perhaps you will be willing to shew me 
their eternal lot, and my own. He said, Come. 

Easter Service

“The earth turns, the sun rises. It’s quite simple.”  We turned towards the high peaks to the east—cold, and still smooth and clean with snow, the half-circle of rising sun warming our faces. I squinted…