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Today's poem is by Helena Mesa

The Lesson
       

She said He is everywhere,
even inside you
. I felt
my bones bow, my organs
crowd with words
whispered from within.
The thin black dog
leaning against a white fence,
The seamstress pricking
her finger, my father sleeping
at the end of the pew—
inside us all, He listened,
a black phone with a stiff dial
connecting one mind
to the next. I listened to
the circuits of my body
jam with sounds, then
a stillness I feared.
Eve left the garden,
she said. Eve disobeyed,
and He marched her
through gates leading
nowhere
, and nowhere
stretches. He knew
before she covered
herself in leaves, before
the core swarmed with bees.
He lived inside her
and felt the thought form.



Copyright © 2019 Helena Mesa All rights reserved
from Beloit Poetry Journal
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission

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