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192 pages, Paperback
First published July 24, 2023
"I think about Jesus. About the scene in the garden, the night they come to take him away. Later later later I hear a friend of the father recite poems by the poet who was found sprawled against a washing machine (or was it a stove?) in the old country. This time the mother is there too. We've been there before. It's a cold little place, maybe just the backroom of a house where someone has set up a few tables. Several people are reading aloud and singing that evening, standing atop bottle crates. The mother is sitting with red wine in a plastic glass listening with her eyes closed. How beautiful she is. How I love her. Afterwards I slip out, walk home, go into the small church and pray for forgiveness for not understanding the poems of the drowned poet, the man who floated like a garment. My God is hunger. My God is a plain. My God is a corpse. My God is no."