Swimming

split with an ordinary

kitchen knife

in two

marrow spongy

and porous

between the halves of me

drying out

crying out

for showers of anointment

baptismal grace

edging the great divide 

in three

offering my denomination

holding onto

the parts of the whole

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Written September 16, 2008

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