January through March 2003 ~ Volume 11
Publisher D. Menendez, EIC Jim Christ
Editors Janet Kenny & Ani Gjika - Joe Carcel Ghost Editor
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| Sleeping With God's Wife |
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Ken Ashworth |
| She seeks solace in Oolong tea and lemon scented soaps ; the hours hold a rosary like a spent child on her lap. At night subdued by candles, hair an apostasy of tangles, she sleeps knotted - the rope of a woman who needs all her faith to believe she has not married poorly. I make an abacus of her spine, measure her labor with pulleys, count each breath until I know its length by the weight of her absence against me. I go where the light goes when the flame is blown, My penance to lie in the dark, listen for the murmur at my ear- the unquiet tongues of the saved.
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| Poem Copyright © Ken Ashworth 2002. All rights reserved. |