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| ***BIO*** Adrienne Lewis (www.andydylew.com) is the author of two brief poetry collections: Coming Clean (Mayapple Press, 2003) and Compared to This (Finishing Line Press, 2005). Her work has appeared in various print and online literary publications. She lives and teaches English in Michigan, where she has rooted for the Tigers long before their 2006 AL Championship. |
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| True Believer |
| by Adrienne Lewis |
| I thought he was God.
The way he fed me daily bread and cheap pitchers, plugged those fivers into the jukebox so later I could ask for forgiveness, swallow him whole. He was a tangle of a thousand voices— The way things rise and fall, a little like an hallelujah; I stole this from our song, but back then everything was permissible— And because I worshipped him the sheets were transfigured: Their damp center, a cool stigmata piously worn against flesh. Though I preferred his laughter on my back, bite marks swelling slightly, the sweet smell of something burning while down on my knees. |
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| June 2007 |
| 90 |