Arsenic Lobster poetry journal        Issue Six   2004
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deception
Karen R Porter

a little ritual
portends
the lessening of grace
the slow slackening
of focus

here are
others’ failures
the great white flags
stained red

cut down
pulled down
knocked down
get your god
out of my church

these hands
don’t bleed
& you won’t
find any nails
in heaven

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