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Revival
In the first slippery hours of Sunday
we’re partying beneath City pavements, speaking in tongues, hands in the air, redeemed.
They never told you God was portable but here He is, shaking the foundations, temple gates vanishing into rubble.
No saint or prophet would call this a vigil but it’s religion. A neon-haloed angel blesses the decks, the heart on her vest
bleeding serene trails between her breasts. She raises a chalice. Her worshippers dance in a mass of guilt and dry-ice incense.
We’re the wise ones; cracked parables, lost days, chemical visions, nights without bridegrooms, faces raised to the wild light. Reverence. Praise.
Blackwell’s first collection of poetry, Into Temptation, was published by Tollington Press in 2009 and her first novel, After My Own Heart, was published by Limehouse Books in March 2012. She also won the Literary Death Match of that year.
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