SPARK

Jay Young Gerard
Tout ira bien (All will be well)
a diptych executed in oil, pastel, graphite
Response

The fist of desire has long remained clenched
By Lisa Nielsen
Inspiration piece

Clouds, vociferous and boasting, truncate the sun, as usual, but
they are no match for the imprints of my dragging feet

On the shore, I expect memory to serve me, but
I am certain those memories will gut me

(I heard optimism is hidden in my entrails)

I bask in gloomy forecasts,
fraternize with demons disguised as shadows,
all the while pretending my petitions are better off sealed.  I know

there is no guarantee I will be loved,
even after my offering of molecules is well received
and taken in like the body of Christ, so

I set my heart to prayer, and wait for the buzzer to go off.  I squirm.
I am feeling too bitter to coincide with god today

There will always be that moment of doubt
that turns a mouthful of air into concrete and
that split second when I almost understood.

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