Joan Myers

Nov 17, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Joan Myers |Dominic Preziosi |Shaun Blanchard |Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

OFFERTORYDenied ordinationby virtue of sex,I find it ironicthat God sends mea consistory of cardinalsred-robed and chattering. Within yards of my touchthey rest on the hedgenear the windowand must understandthe wall they can’t seewould break their bonesif they flew full-force against it. One move from meand they’d disappearunless glass this thin works like a mirror in the day’s early light.