On fire

Maya Angelou // Haji Chilonga’s On Red Dress

Her voice legato, détaché, a violinist stroking
desire, dissonance, her gliding fiery tongue:

Have enough courage to trust love one
more time. His canvas a Pentecostal torch,

the central flame a rose, white-centered.
Red and blue spiral the flower head,

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

Toni Alimi and Matthew Elia each make the case that it is. Their books demand a reckoning.

One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.

My in-laws took the whole family to Ken Ham’s monument to young earth creationism. What could go wrong?