Travelers Welcome

Travelers Welcome

Sunday, February 1, 2015

AFTER THE OFFERING

by D.L. Tricarico

you are spread across
the sheets
like a sacrifice
so poor
you cannot even
afford the cost
of your own stigmata.

I am transfixed,
having moved from convert
to non-believer.

In that moment,
paralyzed before us,
The room darkens
like a secret
told too fast.

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