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water i WON’T touch

​My partner & I only believe
in good omens,
 
because we are young and gay
and generally unbothered
 
when god tells us
we are misbehaved.
 
In response, we invite hell
hounds into our bed
 
and invest in a proper vacuum.
Religion in America
 
is taken much
too seriously. And though,
 
we are dying, 
please watch us rejoice
 
simply at not having killed
the house plants, simply
 
at having cooked a meal
even and through.
Picture
George Cochran Lambdin. Side of a Greenhouse, 1870-80. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kayleb Rae Candrilli is a 2019 Whiting Award Winner in Poetry and the author of Water I Won’t Touch (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), All the Gay Saints (Saturnalia, 2020), and What Runs Over (YesYes Books, 2017). You can read more of Candrilli’s work here.
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