Between You and These Bones by F. D. Soul

Author:F. D. Soul
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2019-05-01T14:34:21+00:00

I think I could love you well in German.

in the rain.

against ripped backseat car upholstery.

MY MOTHER ASKS IF YOU KNOW GOD

My mother asks if you know God.

I tell her / no / but

on our third date I told you we wouldn’t have sex

and you stayed. so, I guess that’s close?

I am naked to the waist and there is a forest fire starting beneath my ear.

Jasper laughs and drinks beer as it spills over us says

“Jamie, have you gon’ converted my boy?”

because he breathes the forest. and tramping. the quiet noise. we go swimming in waterfalls and all I do is tell him that

my word for this is God.

the falling in love he does on his own.

at six months he looks at me, calls me love. realizes that

this, too, is faith.

I am molten against the length of him

my dad stopped going when his ex-wife got custody of the church.

who knew you could feel everything in just two hands

he listens to the music and cries

and that boy’s mouth

he tells me that he cannot see forever

without me in it

and that boy’s heart

he is every amen I have ever laid down on lips

this is not a proposal

but if this life is an altar. the sacrifice is little. and the love

is so

so great.

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