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Catechism Emma Bolden God poked two holes in the back of Sister Nathaniel’s skull and stuck two eyes there. He made them blue as her other eyes, and every morning she prayed and teased her hair with a rat-tail comb to cover them. She closed all four eyes to keep them safe from hairspray. God puts His eyes in every wall because God is always watching. God puts a bell on every door so God can ring it any time. When the Virgin Mary knocked on Mary Ann Van Hoof’s screen door, she wore a blue mist and a copse of trees and said women were sinners for showing their ankles and shoulder blades and breasts. If you hem your skirt above your knees, you prick Mary’s feet and fingers and heart with a thorn. Never ask why. God will melt your teeth and turn your tongue to blood. God will turn His Host to blood in your mouth if you use your mouth to say His Host isn’t His Flesh, or to ask Patrick if His Host tastes like Saltines, or if you walk through the Church’s back door with the Host tucked between your teeth and cheek. Let His Host melt. Try to chew it and each bite will scratch the scabs off of Christ’s stigmata. Don’t play with a Ouija board unless you want the Devil to tell you what God doesn’t want you to know. Don’t touch a Tarot card unless you want the Devil to live in your hands. Everything your hands can touch, the Devil has touched first: wine glasses ringing the Christmas table, paperbacks shelved past your hands and their reach. The Devil keeps his lips on your ear. He shouts and he whispers. tahoma literary review 41
Cathecism He speaks and you listen. You speak. The Devil is your ear, your lips, the tongue lying inside your lips as they open to tell a lie. Pray without ceasing he leaves be. Pray without ceasing he leaves you with your wickedness. Pray without ceasing for what you should be: a white rose at the Virgin’s feet, a lamb with its neck stretched, prone as a sky. 42
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Carolyne Wright I’m keeping my op
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The Broken Leg Amanda Moore Eventua
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And Not to Have is the Beginning of
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Elizabeth Oness them with the dista
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Elizabeth Oness phone, now she can
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Elizabeth Oness tall roll of butche
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Elizabeth Oness She had imagined th
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Tim Kahl Maybe I’m more hostage t
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Not About Liz Catherine Moore There
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Bow and Cello Brandon Courtney I. O
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Brandon Courtney She mouthed the wo
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The Aftermath Nandini Dhar (after A
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Honored After Rescue Failed Nicole
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Katie Bickell fore, Mr. Nyson had l
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Paul J. Willis Sal, did I know you
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Diane Lockward To know that the bro
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Stephen Lackaye beside the point, a
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Contributors Conduit, the Indiana R
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