i want to let it be known that no poetry on this site is ever finished. i’ll be rewriting these for a while and then hopefully i’ll do a chapbook that you will buy. that’s the idea anyway. just think extended and edited versions of all of the things read here in paper form!

this is no redemption story
no jesus
three fingers raised
			to the sky
	
no job
exiled from Him
			in bible poetry
	
no sinner
born into the world
			blind and happy
	
this is an (in)personal exile story
with no reprieve
months without bread or body
years without kindness or love
ghost crimes committed and
			re written
	
she, exiled into to the past
just memory annals
decomposed by passage of time
becoming sifted delicate dust
until only the original sin(ner)
			re mains
	
...but
	
this is no redemption story
no jesus
three days and
			removed from ascension
	
no job
rewarded for faith
			after leprous skin
	
no sinner
to be forgiven
			inside of themselves