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  • Saint John the Baptist, and: The Conversion of Saul
  • J. Bruce Fuller (bio)

Saint John the Baptist

Shirtless and sweating in the summer, I inoculate sheep. They will not still as I straddle and hold them with my knees, aim the needle at their jugular veins. Too deep and the needle will pierce clean through.     Are these the lambs you shepherded through the wilderness to wash and give that final protection, their blood so precious as to require a vaccine of pure spirit?     I wash the woolen filth from my arms and chest, bend down and place my neck beneath the barn faucet, bend down     humbly. [End Page 607]

The Conversion of Saul

Once, my brother was trampled by a horse.

The horse was blind. Neither saw the other coming.

There was no time to call out, to warn him.

After his dusty body rolled, he rose slightly changed. [End Page 608]

J. Bruce Fuller

j. bruce fuller, a Louisiana native, is currently a 2016–2018 Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. He has authored five chapbooks, most recently The Dissenter’s Ground, and is the editor and publisher of Yellow Flag Press.

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