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    God Loves You
    God Loves You
    God Loves You
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    God Loves You

    By Kathryn Maris

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    Borrowing rhythms, vocabulary, and themes from the Bible, this collection of poems is more than artful parody—it is an approach that accommodates large themes, unraveling them in new ways. The first section is a kaleidoscopic view of the sins and sinners of the modern city and opens, appropriately enough, with a vision of a flood to rival Noah’s. The poems feature domestic discord, gossip, suicide, celebrity, and anxiety about the safety and behavior of children and spouses. A skillful use of form is characteristic, along with a meticulous poise and tone that lure readers in with sympathies fully engaged. Gently satirical and with a sophisticated and quietly subversive voice, this book is an antidote to religious fanaticism.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeren
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781781720363
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      God Loves You - Kathryn Maris

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      What Will the Neighbours Think?

      Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?

      – Lamentations 1:12

      What Will Happen to the Neighbours

      When the Earth Floods?

      In the foreground there is an isolated flat slab of rock on which some helpless

      humans have taken refuge just at the moment when the flood is welling nearer

      and is about to cover them.

      – Goethe on Jacob More’s painting ‘The Deluge’

      Sometimes I mistake Noah for God, but sometimes I mistake

      God for no one.

      I mistake Noah for God because even in his arms I’m

      abandoned.

      From my High Ground you can see my neighbours, but it’s hard

      to look.

      So here are my glasses.

      Is that a raft? Because I think it’s a boatman who hangs his head

      in the storm.

      But is that a raft or is it a rock? Could it be one rock lower

      than Ararat?

      I love my neighbours and I think God would love me for this.

      But I covet my neighbours too, and God might proscribe this if

      he had laws.

      Look at my neighbours with nothing to covet. Now see the

      container I live in with too much to hold.

      There are my neighbours; here’s my container.

      Here’s me, the doves, the griffins, the dogs, the bears, the boys,

      and my man who can look like God when the weather’s

      not clear.

      And the weather is unclear a lot.

      I remind him of the neighbours, but he says, ‘Look. I don’t want

      to be reminded of the neighbours.’

      I can be distant with him, but I feel affection when he eats.

      When he eats, he bows his head like that boatman who probably

      isn’t a boatman but a neighbour pressing against the weather on

      almost the last land in the world.

      The Witch and Macduff Exit

      My Neighbour’s House

      My neighbour was a bitch

      in Stoppard, a witch

      in Shakespeare, a lawyer

      on The Bill,

      but she’s ‘herself’

      when she’s over the wall

      with her daughter,

      my favourite child

      next to my own,

      who are friends with her one day

      and not the next,

      like when my son

      accused her of stealing

      a Gameboy cartridge,

      and my daughter repeated

      an awful thing

      I say about the English,

      that they’re the rudest people

      on the planet.

      But as for my neighbour:

      I smile through tears

      when she and her daughter

      are over the wall

      playing together

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