Eve Lyons
Where Connection is Possible
In the years before my nose ring
and green hair
but sometime after becoming a vegetarian
I stood before my temple
declared that God was in between
all of us, in the space
where connection is possible.
What then, is prayer,
if God is possibility but fragile
easily lost or even squashed
Prayer is an invocation,
a call to arms,
a beckoning,
a reckoning
summoning others to gather round.
Prayer is a protest march,
a knitting circle,
a writing group,
a poetry slam.
Prayer is not the end
or even the goal
Prayer is how we survive
until we get there.
Where Connection is Possible
In the years before my nose ring
and green hair
but sometime after becoming a vegetarian
I stood before my temple
declared that God was in between
all of us, in the space
where connection is possible.
What then, is prayer,
if God is possibility but fragile
easily lost or even squashed
Prayer is an invocation,
a call to arms,
a beckoning,
a reckoning
summoning others to gather round.
Prayer is a protest march,
a knitting circle,
a writing group,
a poetry slam.
Prayer is not the end
or even the goal
Prayer is how we survive
until we get there.
Eve Lyons is a poet and fiction writer living in the Boston area. Lyons’s work has appeared in Lilith, Hip Mama, Mutha Magazine, Word Riot, Dead Mule of Southern Literature, as well as other magazines and several anthologies. Her first book of poetry is due out in May of 2020 by WordTech Communications.