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God/Religion/Spiritualityexpand_moreSo, Ida, are you a Jew or a nudist? Do you believe in Hanukkah?
This is the day when the saints all go silently to church in France.
Devanand Simon was twenty-five when the bodies fell from the sky.
She countered the reverence of his efforts stroke by stroke, tit for tat.
My father made me watch softball on ESPN 2 to help me stay alive.
Karen was, in that moment, nothing, emptiness. She was oblivion.
I recoil from the certitude that religion can give a person; it’s horrific.
Refuge, Your church is often a house. Your Word is a house.
Many times I’ve stood at the lip of this river and wanted to crawl in.
I had the tongue of an adder and my heart was black with rage and hate.
We are like a village here, separated from the rest of the world.
It’s another thing to have the beloved hesitate, silent, on the porch.
‘Isn’t this great?’ she said. ‘A bit of peace for ourselves?’ ‘No one could go into a cafe on their own on Christmas Day.’
When I land we argue over the little hazards a marriage is made of.
When I say I’ve seen a man die, what I mean is many and always.
I tried mightily, but no longer could I ladle those ancient words into the air.
I didn’t trust her. Relationships like ours aren’t built on trust.
I know you want your mother’s dial tone like you want a KFC box.
He is not a man, but an empty shell, a creature who laughs to stop the shame.
I hadn’t always liked being around my mother while she was alive.
Please, Theresa thought, as a tenderness surged within herself.
Ah, yes, Rita reminded herself: I won. Her Mistress of Mayhem award.
I believed in department stores the way I believed in Germany.
I opened my eyes and they burned; I closed them and saw my father.
Am I here without me just as I was before when stars spoke.
Writing is a subversive activity that exempts you from the rules.
He knows what happens before it happens. Next shift, next season.
Betrayal was written on my face, in my eyes, and I knew it.
The sunrise does not blaze fiercely but spreads in a gentle flush.
He phones from across the country after lying in the grass with another.
