It brings him back to the seminary in the 1950s / when he found God everywhere. / None of his five children go to church, / but I promise to engage in regular discourse.
My womb was promised a child. / She exists solely for that purpose and yet I keep denying her / the chance to reach her full potential. / There have been opportunities—mistakes—dodged / encounters where her hopes are raised and / I am sobbing, clutching the bathroom sink and my stomach. / She hates me.
