Moving Day

Moving Day

Garrett Soucy

Did Eve ever talk about the past?
Did laughter ever spill out over her post-exilic teeth?
And when I woke up, God still had His mouth on my nose.
Or could Masaccio have opted to open his aperture at any other moment
And still have retrieved an image of our mother frozen salt-still in the grief of expulsion.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc leaving Eden,
Awaiting a greater covering.
Atonement hungry.

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Garrett Soucy
Poet & Pastor

Garrett Soucy is a pastor, teacher, writer, and musician on the coast of Maine, where he lives with his wife and ten children. His articles have appeared in Forma, Modern Reformation, Plough, Theopolis, and elsewhere. You can contact him or check out his work at Tributeblog.me.

Photography by Sergey Sokolov