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Pulpit

The body and the blood are of those who inched on their bellies underneath barbed wire and never lived to be born again. Motherlands shackled at the feet of their Fathers. Who mourns at their whitewashed bones? Bleached by the desert Son, Marked with unnamed crosses, they scream the names of Holy Ghosts. In the silence, my thighs part like the Red Sea my borders unguarded, she drinks me like wine at the last supper.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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