And God Goes Blank
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Three times today I thought of God:
first with a man who watched the sky turn black . . . “Weird, sort of desperate,” he said.
Next in a poem by Rosenberg: infinite wing and dark gargoyles under it. But from your center light breaks through you — the creator’s voice in your midst in the midst of the world.
A student in her thesis wrote of “little tabernacles, hush harbors.” Slave women hung wet quilts and hid there to muffle their spiritual song.
Master, no master. [End Page 119]
Jennifer Wallace lives in Baltimore, MD and Shutesbury, MA. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is a poetry editor at The Cortland Review and a founding editor of Toadlily Press. Her poems, essays and photographs have appeared in artists’ books, exhibition catalogs, galleries, museums, anthologies and literary journals. Her fourth poetry collection, The Want Fire, was published by Passager Books in 2015. jwallace13@verizon.net
