The Boy with ADHD in Church
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A twelve-year-old boy is leaningon his mother's shoulderhis face turnedinhis hand on hers holding himself in placethough the heel of his shoe beats the half seconds and his knee bobs in cut time.
I see how he curveshis fingers like a globe and then opens,pushing up his palm like the earth's firmament and tracing
the latitudinal and longitudinal creasesuntil he's explored all the crosseson the whole globe and with quaking hand—the final Amen!—
rolls away thesilence,springs up,brittling [End Page 325] the earth's crustlike a geyser once stirring the dark, now gushing white and free.
And suddenly we children knowsomething aboutresurrection.
© LaDonna Friesen [End Page 326]
LaDonna Friesen is an Assistant Professor of English at Evangel University in Springfield, MO. She believes poems are alive every day in people and scenes. This poem was inspired by a boy with ADHD who held himself in place through church by leaning on his mother and using his imagination to connect the sermon with his own body.
