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Psalm [I have a friend]

Posted by Clay Matthews | Sep 17, 2024 | Poetry | 0 |

Psalm [I have a friend]

I have a friend
who speaks to the Holy Ghost.
I listen; he looks
into the distance
and says “The Spirit says
to wait.” The leaf looks back
at the branch and dreams
of rivers. I look back at my life,
friends, and confess
I’m not really sure
how I got here. In the looking
back: salt, sand, even sourwood
honey on a white tablecloth.
Randy pours the Spirit out
and then tells me
it told him to shut up.
So we’re quiet for a while
as I watch a bird
singing just behind his head.

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Clay Matthews

Clay Matthews

Clay Matthews has published recently in Arts & Letters, THRUSH, Image, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. His collections are: Superfecta (Ghost Road Press), Runoff (BlazeVOX Books), Pretty, Rooster, and Shore (Cooper Dillon Books), and Four-Way Lug Wrench (Main Street Rag). A new book, Birds Sing, Anyway, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. He resides in Elizabethtown, KY and teaches at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.

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