Oxford Magazine: Lonesome Harvests, Issue 35: Fall 2015

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Geramee Hensley Geramee Hensley

Golden Ox Award Winner Quiet You can fill a concrete mixer with sound if you scream loud enough. Seal the drum and churn the noise with unanswered prayers. Do not be alarmed by its hiss like covalent bonds snapping in an aerosol can. When the mix clots into cement, build cities with it. In this city every building is a church, and prayer is the local pastime. Huddled in a stadium with 50,000 strangers it comes to light: those prayers at best are God-calls, and you’re hunting.

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