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angel-faced girl  invites you  to
take   communion/she     holds
the mason  jar/gestures  to the
full/forever   away  room/says
we  all   drank  from  it/sloshes
forward/holds  your  face/tips
the  jar   into  your  mouth/the
glass  clicks   on your teeth/her
hand     is   on   your   neck/the
blood       runs      down      your
cheeks/onto        your       white
sweater/you        laugh      with
her/wipe your face/wipe  your
sweater/someone     says/what
kind   of   wine   do   you   think
Jesus made anyway?

Chloe Ackerman

Chloe Ackerman lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She has previously been published in  issue four of Silly Goose Press, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and Barstow & Grand. She is very proud to be a Silly Goose. 

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