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Poem: “As if There Were Only One” By Martha Serpas

In the morning God pulled me onto the porch, a rain-washed gray and brilliant shore. I sat in my orange pajamas and waited. God said, “look at the tree.” And I did.

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Martha Serpas

. . . And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst

of the waters” and into the dome God put

the poor, the addicts, the blind and the oppressed.

God put the unsightly sick and the crying young

into the dome and the dry land did not appear.

And God allowed those who favored themselves

born in God’s image to take dominion over

the dome and everything that creeped within it

and made them to walk to and fro above it

in their jumbo planes and in their copy rooms

and in their conference halls. And then

God brooded over the dome and its multitudes

and God saw God’s own likeness in the shattered

tiles and the sweltering heat and the polluted rain.

God saw everything and chose to make it very good.

God held the dome up to the light

like an open locket and in every manner called

the others to look inside and those who saw

rested on that day and those who didn’t

went to and fro and walked up and down

the marsh until the loosened silt gave way

to a void, and darkness covered the faces with deep sleep.

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"As if There Were Only One," a poem by Martha Serpas

“In the morning God pulled me onto the porch, a rain-washed gray and brilliant shore. I sat in my orange pajamas and waited. God said, ‘Look at that tree.’ And I did...”

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I will take joy from wherever it comes. I will wring it out of my grief. I will seize it from my enemies. Joy has no identity, no politics, no beliefs. It is not deterred by my righteous indignation. I will find hope is in its presence, not some bird in my future.

Martha Serpas, “Inauguration Resolution 2017,” published in Fogged Clarity

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Martha Serpas, "Apostrophe"

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Martha Serpas, Côte Blanche

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Martha Serpas, Côte Blanche