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  • Revival
  • Roger Reeves (bio)

At the end of my shoulders pinned against the floor,more sin.

Buck. Buck. Buck clatters my back between heavenand my mother's mouth.

At the tent meeting, my tongue swelled like a raccoondrowned and bloating in a creek.

It creaks. It floats.

Dear Lord, ride me like the meatbees ride decayfrom one day to the next.

All those trapped on this altar sour like the silt and sloughof pig knuckles spilled

from a mason jar. Do not be afraidof our unbelief.

Lord, we are yet dead. [End Page 149]

Roger Reeves

Roger Reeves (poexeries@yahoo.com) received his BA from Morehouse College and an MA in English from Texas A&M University. His awards include a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Work-Study Scholarship, two Cave Canem fellowships, and an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, American Literary Review, Indiana Review, and Gulf Coast Best New Poets 2009. He is currently an MFA candidate at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.

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