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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

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ALL THIS AND HEAVEN, TOO

Blessed are the cheese makers

Life of Brian  Monty Python

God like a TV

in another room has us

straining to hear above

the drone

of furnace, the gush

of plumbing

the clamor of our brains.

The story is full

of gaps

and full of

narrators slapped

off their ass,

groping the night.

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A FAT GOLD WATCH

I’m on God’s fob chain, not a minute
to myself. I keep watch
in the garden, lay awake
with Christ, toss all night
in the bosom of Abraham.

I kneel for hours watching
the cogs of doctrine turn
the gears of clockwork saints.
God wound
my spring so tight the prayers run

fast. Chimes strike
in my head. The shuddering won’t stop.
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Breakfast of Solomon

Before you augered through the winter crust,

hepatica corralled within your fist,

I watched the yearly running of this scene.

The rutting buck rubbed his horns on bark.

He seemed to love the tree, the tender green,

unaware that it turns blazing red

before it makes a boney-fingered reach

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“Losing Love Is Like a Window in Your Heart”

The big bang that twained us, that rattled

sashes, begat parallel universes-mine littered

with confetti of myself-yours, so star-spangled,

it scorched my eyes. Our home, not where your

heart was, yet mine cozied into our domestic mess.

Then supernatural powers churned the constellations,

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Lene Lovich is not German. She's Half Serbian & Half English, born in Detroit but grew up in Hull, England.

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