Alison Hoffmann

 

This Me

said she was Italian      my father was German
my husband says Christians look at him
think hell think 
when we went out my mother
pretended she was (Christian) like everyone else
he's going to hell      I loved
knowing right or wrong      there was a right
there was science      there was      refuge
organelles      cell pumps      ionic bonding
the high priest of science
I told my mother I didn't want to live
in this country anymore
told her I didn't understand how we could all
keep living keep
pretending we don't know
Hiroshima it is hard for me to write
to feel like yes this is right there is no question
god left me      sainthood
in the scientific method
neutral then the meaning of miracle

 

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