Deja Earley

DEJA EARLEY’s {[email protected]} poems and essays have previously appeared or are forthcoming in national journals like Arts and Letters, Borderlands, and Lilliput Review. She has re￾ceived honors in several writing contests, including the 2008 Joan Johnson Award in poetry, the 2004–2005 Parley A. and Ruth J. Christensen Award, and an Honorable Mention from the Acad￾emy of American Poets in both 2003 and 2004. She completed a Ph.D. in English and creative writing at the University of South￾ern Mississippi and moved to the Boston area, where she works as a development editor at Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. She blogs at dejavuearley.blogspot.com

I Teach Six-Year-Olds about Jesus in Sunday School

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 3

A girl I’ve never met meets me at the door, 
whines at my leg until I hold her. Thin arms, 
thin mouth, a sour smell I overlook while fetching 
crayons, glue sticks, snacks. She lifts her dress, 
exposes the top of her baggy white tights, looks at me.
We both sing: “Faith is knowing the sun will rise…”
I sit next to her, tap her hands, whisper no. 

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Intermission Wine

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

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Sex Talk Sunday

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

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