Seeking God

By: Richard Spilman

Begin with lights that swim and whisper

on the ceiling on moonless nights.

Add breaths that creak, twitter and sigh

like the stridor of a sickly child,

a painful crackling of skin, the blush

of hands waking from winter numbness,

and the perfume of loss, the otherness

that bodies seek like deer coming to salt.

Meld them into the brine of dawn

that rankles every waking tongue.

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About the Author

Richard Spilman was born and raised in Normal, Illinois. Thus his Substack page, Far From Normal. He is the author of one book of poetry, In the Night Speaking, and two chapbooks, Suspension and Dig. He is also the author of two collections of short fiction, Hot Fudge and The Estate Sale. Most of those are out of print, but you can still find Dig and The Estate Sale on Amazon.