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PROSE POETRY​

DANIEL EDWARD MOORE
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BETHLEHEM, BABY, BETHLEHEM


The humility here is impressive. A virgin gives birth to the father of forgiveness, under a Bethlehem star in a barn surrounded by three fearful kings as animals sing hallelujah. And you thought New York in the 70’s was strange: as in Patti, Robert, and Lou taking turns playing the grim reapers girl, as in knees bloodied each day in a spoon from addiction’s rise and fall. I cut holes in my pants for that reason. Scars need to breathe if angels have a chance at surviving the soup cans that made them. When Andy took a bullet, god was inspired by how steel and flesh chandeliered the body into Bethlehem, baby, Bethlehem.


Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems are forthcoming in Emrys Journal, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Lindenwood Review, Sheila-Na-Gig Pandemic Anthology, The Chaffin Journal and more. He is the author of the chapbook, Boys (Duck Lake Books) and a full length collection Waxing The Dents (Brick Road Poetry Press).
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