Title

Hosanna

Authors

Rick Hale

Files

Description

Los Angeles, Michelangelo, Jude, peopling the lost souls, tell me now:

Do you remember this eye, this hand, these ears, this

mouth? May I break my solemn invocation with a sneeze?

Forgive me. No bless yous –

my sinuses are cork-tight. No soul will leak tonight. I have Benadryl, Claritin,

Zyrtec. The clerics. They'll not deliver me unto

any Egyptian waters; I haven't yet written my holy litany,

my radiant magnum dopus.

Publication Date

2011

Keywords

prayer narrative

Disciplines

Creative Writing | Religion

Comments

"Hosanna" was originally published at On Earth As It Is.

Image by Matthew Simmons.

Recommended Citation

Hale, Rick, "Hosanna" (2011). On Earth As It Is. 15.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/onearth/15