Redemption

The minister says I’m alive

Through grace says 

They may never know

What rendered me silent

He tells them to pray

The spirit gives several messages

In other tongues

        Praise the Lord

        They shout

        Praise the Lord

The women place a Bible

Under my pillow I dream

My voice returns

I point to the minister

But no one listens.

Tina Parker’s new poetry collection will be published in late fall 2020. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Another Offering and the full-length poetry collection Mother May I. Her work has received support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and has appeared in Still: The Journal, Pen+Brush, Rattle, Literary Mama, and PMS: poemmemoirstory.

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