Lord help us if we start to think we
are good that we don’t owe God
anything even before she sold her
fine clothes cut her gold hair only
ate every third day every day kissed
the feet of the poor she wore a hair
shirt to scrape her skin keep sin on her
mind later she’d tell us “our bodies are
not made of stone” so treat them like flesh
like perishable flesh as hers twisted and failed
as it had always failed her and the Lord.
