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Along our route the sea laps low
Borderless waters prostrate at the camels’ feet
I thought myself
Holding out my hand for your robes
Holding myself high as Sinai for you
Yet here you low reaching
may I never know peace

You can hear a conversation about this poem on the Reformed Journal Podcast.

Photo by Ahmad Ajmi on Unsplash

Katherine Indermaur

Katherine Indermaur is the author of I|I (Seneca Review Books), winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize and 2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and two chapbooks. She is an editor for Sugar House Review. Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, Frontier Poetry, New Delta Review, Ninth Letter, the Normal School, and elsewhere. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her family.