Homecoming

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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Homecoming

The threshold of your perfect ankle exposed
brought me to my knees as you entered the church.

And butterfly on marigold! It was homecoming
Sunday where Spirit-struck congregants sang

like so many crickets in chorus. Their Tender Care
voices, their Sweet Prospect voices, their Hallelujah!

What a Savior voices all raised in that Primitive
Baptist drone that vibrates in your very core.

But back to that ankle of yours, perfectly
accentuated by red flats and your golden,

delicious calf. I confess as that preacher sang
out about heaven and hell and all the places in

between my mind turned to worldly thoughts
of the flesh and the body, specifically yours

and mine. And Jesus! That church was hot for
October. And really? What is better than a crisp

juicy apple in the fall? And if I gain a little knowledge
of good and evil in the bargain, I’m sure I can be forgiven.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.