Jacqui Thewless - Apologia

I gave up churches,
even the ones that recognised
silence as a river of sacred possibilities:

diving for pearls
-of-wisdom by priestly-permission, the faithful
servants were won with prizes, while I

still preferred poems
that open their shells by themselves
to fickle folk with searching

attitudes, who’re secretly fervent,
ravenous for truth – and
fed by fluke.

Jacqui Thewless

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