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PRAYER TO ST. MARTHA by Leah Silvieus

Sunday, 20 September 2015 by Leah Silvieus

Late August the galley blooms

             fruit flies, smoke-winged & garnet-eyed, circling the soft caves

 

of over-sweet summer fruit: pear & blueberry, clingstone

                                      peach. Each night I pray resurrection

 

but am deceived. Faith is not feast

                       but desire, not beauty of the table but what drags us starving

 

                                      there –  what was buried inside

                       the sweetness, inside

 

the plum’s bruised heart: larvae, pearling. Saint dear

             of my difficult hunger:

 

                       cloy me

                                                    mote me

 

             rise me up

 

 

 

 

Four Way ReviewLeah SilvieusSt. Martha
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