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I believe the witnesses of these things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I believe the song not sung at Babylon riverside.\u00a0 I\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

believe in don\u2019t cry, scream.\u00a0 You and your word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of a charcoal fire, fine fish and thick\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

bread.\u00a0 I believe Hosanna, Alleluia, kudos, mazel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

tov, joy, transubstantiation, disputation, sorrow\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

crows, notary publics.\u00a0 I believe in garments whiter\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

than snow. Whirlwind blooming.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I believe in Western Avenue car dealerships, Halsted\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Street gay bars, Clark Street taquerias, storefront\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Madison Street churches, vast vacant South Side lots\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of buildings disappeared, labyrinth Lower Wacker\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Drive, South Water Market, Peanuts Park, Loretto\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hospital, the gas bursting into air out of Bubbly Creek,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the clots of high schoolers, dopey with youth, in\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s in mid-afternoon, the ostentatious simple\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of Daniel Burnham\u2019s grave, the painting of Msgr. Long\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

posed as St. Edward in the circle high up in St. Martin de\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Porres Church, the pew there where the two who made\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

me vowed to wed, the tunnel of el tracks along Lake\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Street that my 12-year-old brother, unlost, walked home\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

seven miles to avoid asking for help. Who would answer?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Listen, I believe meniscus tear.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I believe the echo of the name-caller, the stained glass<\/span><\/p>\n

shattering, the crumbling of the eucharistic Saltine.\u00a0 I\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

believe the red priest sermon, the baby\u2019s prayer for\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

salvation. Peasant pugilism, I believe. Gospel cockfights.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe I ask three times.\u00a0 The thunder out of White\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountain, out of the Church of the Holy Innocent, out of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the Leamington gangway, the signboards weeds, the\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Blacktop glass glitter in sunrise, the deaf girl who was my\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

playmate once, the aroma of incense rising to the darkness\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in the ceiling of the apse.\u00a0 Walls shaken, my brother\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

forlorn bullet.\u00a0 I believe lightning.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You want to know what I believe?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The yearn, turn, of the baby to light \u2014 the reach to hope.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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