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Relish
God prefers
free verse
to bound feet
and eats
the fruit
of womanly words
with more relish
than boyish threats
dry and crumbling.
God loves truth
and the round tones
of radical speech
to falsity
and fear
denying
creative lives.
God smells sin
on our breath
like garlic
yet forgives
us when we yell
in His face.
Next time
we may choose
the sweeter
words we
have been given
to the soured
milk of mankind.
Janet Keymetian
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