God as Apparition

I am the sky, I am the night.

I am an aging woman

wearing a shawl of dark stars.

 

Somewhere a distant river prays.

Somewhere Galileo

 

is with his telescope seeing everything.

I want to go

to the corner store

 

for a pack of cigarettes

but my daughters’ weddings

haven’t happened yet.

 

I still want the rush of love

but forgiveness is unendurable.

 

I will come to the same door

as my mother, listening for laughter

and waiting to say the unsayable.


Also by Natalie Marino

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