Tuesday, March 4, 2025

we don't want you anymore

i can
still see the glow
in the dark
Virgin Mary
on my mother's
dresser.
her palms curdled
hard,
the rosary beads
and cross.
and her letter from
the archdiocese
of St. Thomas
More.
saying
she was
excommunicated
after
getting a divorce.

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