lent: the temptations

—Sr. Lou Ella Hickman

hunger now wraps the Flesh

like a shroud of dusty gauze

      command these stones

            amid the wild beasts

sand and night

with their illusions of thunder

                  and in the end

 

      a thirst

Published in the 2010-03-26 issue: 
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