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TOWARDS A TWO-STANZA CREDO

Um, yeah, oh good.

Karen texts me three words

from her quilt workshop

in Albuquerque,

the city of two queues

where I sit in a roomful

of women and one man

who is both plumber and writer--

one who writes about plumbing

and what he does to make water flow

Nobody is as small as God,

she says, being other.

Easy for her to say

being Goddess and Godless

at the same time.

Do you need a prompt

to touch me, or pathetic one,

do you still need hands?

Jim Bodeen

Santa Fe, NM--Yakima, WA

1 April--29 April 2019