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by Joe Moffett
In church the Decalogue rings out and I go years go by and slowly shake color from my hair, I still have my share of deeds to regret. But at least the irony does not escape me of the woman who sits in front and rapidly eats tiny chocolates while the priest delivers his sermon: the chocolates will mix with the wafer she soon will receive, the priest in his trembling old age will shakily place upon her tongue: will Christ’s body be diminished as a consequence? Or, perhaps better: Can his blood wash away the sweetness in her mouth? Joe Moffett is Assistant Professor of English at Kentucky Wesleyan College. His book The Search for Origins in the Twentieth-Century Long Poem was recently published by West Virginia University Press. What little time he can find for his creative writing usually results in work that carries a spiritual theme. Among writers concerned with spiritual matters, his favorite might be Charles Wright. The product of Joe’s study of Wright’s work can be found in his book Understanding Charles Wright, slated for a late 2008 or early 2009 release by University of South Carolina Press. |
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