1 i found the book of our genesis in a box in my closet with the pile of bones that used to be our skeletons.
2 pages of psalms scrawled in the heartsick blood of our high-school romance, fever-pitched and eating each other alive— the behemoth and the leviathan
3 and the trumpets sang revelation.
4 matthew, mark, luke, and john. you were the last, my first, the twenty-seventh in our new testament to love.
5 until. ‘man shall not lie with man,’ you said, and you kissed me goodbye as a brother and walked into your new life on the straight and narrow. it was the first time i’d heard you quote scripture.
6 my religion left me two years ago, but here i stand on the cusp of prayer, seeking the strength to send this epistle away on its final exodus.
Feb 25, 2018
Feb 25, 2018 at 6:37 PM UTC
1 i found the book of our genesis in a box in my closet with the pile of bones that used to be our skeletons.
2 pages of psalms scrawled in the heartsick blood of our high-school romance, fever-pitched and eating each other alive— the behemoth and the leviathan
3 and the trumpets sang revelation.
4 matthew, mark, luke, and john. you were the last, my first, the twenty-seventh in our new testament to love.
5 until. ‘man shall not lie with man,’ you said, and you kissed me goodbye as a brother and walked into your new life on the straight and narrow. it was the first time i’d heard you quote scripture.
6 my religion left me two years ago, but here i stand on the cusp of prayer, seeking the strength to send this epistle away on its final exodus.