my daughter asks.
And I tell her to point
anywhere she wants.
She points at a dead
worm on the sidewalk.
“Yes,” I say.
“God’s in the worm?”
“No,” I say.
I take her finger, hug it.
“In the pointer.”
Ron Riekki’s books include U.P.: a novel; The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works; Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; and And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017 (Michigan State University Press, 2017).
Photo: Detail from Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Rome, Italy. Public domain.
