{"id":1665,"date":"2023-11-16T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2023-11-16T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:51:54","slug":"black-book-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/black-book-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Black book of hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

prayer long after midnight that turns to anger<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lord,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am afraid of your blastiomas, your ear-cups burned<\/span><\/p>\n

to the sockets no reconstructive surgery can ease,<\/span><\/p>\n

the fact that you imagined twisting bone\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

shot molars,<\/span><\/p>\n

creaturely infestation and how it would feel,<\/span><\/p>\n

and then chose to summon these things.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I fear the way you handle Now,<\/span><\/p>\n

perpetual gift that, being touched<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

is removed, so that every seed<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0blossoms only as loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

The finest prayer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

is accusation.<\/span><\/i> Mantic visions<\/span><\/p>\n

mouthed in a dry climate,<\/span><\/p>\n

your own begotten<\/span><\/p>\n

on his afternoon\u2019s cross is in no way sufficient<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

to one slide of muck and bloody rain,<\/span><\/p>\n

one strain grown resistant,<\/span><\/p>\n

one apartment ceiling\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0collapsed above the crib.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What fathomless abortion of Deity<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

has out of his capacity fashioned grief?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Sir,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

how dare you be and not\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

be here\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

among us huddled under mylar sheets,<\/span><\/p>\n

eating with your fingers out of yellow U. N. buckets<\/span><\/p>\n

lice-busy grain<\/span><\/p>\n

and unsafe water?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

prayer long after midnight that turns to anger   Lord,   I am afraid of your blastiomas, your ear-cups burned to the sockets no reconstructive surgery can ease, the fact that you imagined twisting bone\u00a0   shot molars, creaturely infestation and how it would feel, and then chose to summon these things.   I fear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[289],"coauthors":[360],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBlack book of hours | Pensive Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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