Doctrine of No Surprises

This is the second time in my life I’ve cried

every day for at least a month. I am busy

waiting to be born again. I have heard

such miracles have something to do with water,

something to do with being cleansed, so I shower

thrice a day, I sob everywhere I can, I submerge

myself. Emily Dickinson said

once in a letter that her father had a pure

and terrible heart. I confess to foregoing

such attributes. I beg to be made

pure and terrible. I am of this world.

Hail Mary, full of grace. Say it again.


Also by Franziska Hofhansel

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