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I am religious
the way small desert towns
are named after water;
eleven or twenty worn buildings,
brown hills, dust.

No Celestial room has ever compared
to the stalk of yellow bluestem held in my son’s teeth
three-quarters of a mile into a Sunday afternoon walk,
      feathered seeds dancing with every step.

Were they fake news? Etched
on tin? Did the boy prophet
really find them sequestered

Under the dome above, we look up,
singing children’s canticles,
our own domed hearts
clutched by the promise

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