Inspiration,

She wants to write about God.
but not the friendly God character
that appears in the gleam
of so many smiling book covers.
She wants to find the God that makes
her heart change its beat as the
organ shakes the cathedral.

She wants to write about the God
she sees in the sharpness
of the horizon,
or in the hot shame in her sister’s eyes
as her secret is found out.
Not the God she feels around her
like the scent of laundry detergent.