Between scars

After the knee, the neck, the thin incision,
skin stretched, pricked, pulled for needle,

catheter, scalpel, hope, horror, exposure,
expression rounding the bend to belly slashed

wide for the almost-dead, but still breathing,
or the foot with its faint zipper, arthritic but agile

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.

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