Tag: poetry

  • If I was at your church, what would your Communion be?

    By Hannah Mills

    She says, a hot Cheeto and diet coke.
    In your church I’d shake ass on the altar.
    It’s funny and so serious if
    all you had left of a person
    was something to consume
    to remember them by

    The chalice with grape wine
    grossed me out everyone’s lips
    on the same cup
    the old ladies letting you
    sip just enough

    and the Body of Christ was dry
    a tasteless cracker that wasn’t
    allowed to touch the floor
    until that one time it did
    and to everyone’s horror
    I picked it up ate it off the floor

    what would my body and blood
    be if they weren’t me?
    they’d be buried under a tree

    if someone had to consume me
    I’d be savory, lovely, ecstasy

    narrow me down to tingling
    on your tongue
    Communion everyday

    take me back to that
    first time with the grape
    wine and shake
    that girl awake inside