Prepositional Theology
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To understand things in relation to one another –therein lies the genius of the smallest of our words
bywith above
as when the Spirit broods above the waters, a world in wait. Or when you, husband, hoverover me in bed beneath the lamp-lit linens glowingaround us – spirit and skin – in our own microcosm [End Page 147] of making: love, children, a life, youwithin and near as the one who made usbeyond us granting nearness along with a tongue, mind, word to name it, evasiveas it is, so small the strands between us all – like a web of silk, visible only when glisteningwith rain, or when something's caught within it – ourselves caught between, heldwithin, surrounded by, lifted up
into the light
Mary Romero's recent publications include Birmingham Poetry Review, Peacock Journal and Crux, and her chapbook Philoxenia was the recipient of the Luci Shaw Prize. When not writing, Mary also works as an Anglican deacon in Chattanooga, Tennessee and as a mother of two lovely hooligans.
