Lost Footnotes of the Gospels
- Lost Footnotes of the Gospels
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1. Actually, every ghost is holy.
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2. And fish do feel pain.
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3. The fallen angels did not fall, they rose like a feathered cyclone off the highest bluff of heaven.
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4. Or if you don’t believe in God, believe in the brute force of unrelenting mercy.
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5. Recall that peacock tails exist solely for the pleasure of peahens.
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6. Don’t speak ill of the dead. Save all of your ill for the living.
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7. And anyway, the end times are irrelevant for at least another week or so.
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8. e.g., the way the insects of the night cry out, More light, more light.
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9. e.g., the paperweight keeping your tattered confessions from blowing away.
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10. Blessed are the mollusks, the beetles that keep the world churning. Blessed are the annelids. Blessed is the tree that turns too soon, that stands alone in scarlet embarrassment.
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11. Beside your family. Before your meal. This is the moment when you bow your head and wait for grace to descend.
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12. No lessons are gradual. They’re born as quickly as the heat wave blooming in your belly. As quickly as the body unlearns hesitation. [End Page 2]
Holly Jensen’s work has appeared or is upcoming in PANK Magazine, the Midwest Quarterly, and Pear Noir! She is also the author of Selected Timelines (2014). She lives in Cleveland, where she writes for nonprofits and social enterprises.
