Jelly
of the Journal Keeper by Jim Bodeen
Already
our tongues are drunk
on
those two J's howling after vowels.
Messy.
Before you lick
your
fingers clean, dip them
into
the jelly and smear the page,
disrupting
the seraphs and elegant
descenders
alike. Stain the image.
This
is sexy stuff, painting
your
journal with jelly. The early
Church
stripped its young confirmands
and
anointed them in oil---naked &
shiny---initiation
before Communion.
For
him who gave me a jarful, when everyone else got a spoonful.
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