[naming the need]
i need jesus and mary and joseph
and robert llewelyn and the beads
and isabel abbott and coffee
and canadian poets in form
and unwrapping the christmas presents
i need a thin film of ice on the pavement
in front of the police station
i need the guffaw of rev'd matt
in the sanctuary of saint james's
i need noontime confessions
after chicken sandwiches at the burren
and irish fiddle music
and tall glasses of water
i need the cloister of a cistercian abbey
away from phones and websites
away from laptops and memes
i need saint donna of arlington
and all the holy relics pertaining to her grace
i need a mulligan on 1990 but i'm not going to get one
i need the ability to be candid unwoundingly
i need hart crane and punctuation
i need estlin cummings and the legion of decency
i need yes-ma'aming banter
with the alpha females
of man who has it all
i need vanilla femdom
i need submission kink
i need to be tested for neurodivergence
because there's so much bloody overlap
i need to have things explained to me
i need gloria in excelsis
i need sister thea bowman
i need to work with pat on making hymns for church
i need to work with hilary on hugging and being hugged
i need the harbour of hilary’s compassion
i need to ask for things and receive them with grace
i need to drink more coffee
i need adequate heat in my apartment
i need entanglement and bureaucracy
i need a respite from lethargy
because it is exhausting
i need to renew my license
expired now more than three years
i need to not drink
i need do not go gentle into that good night
i need i knew a woman lovely in her bones
i need nothing false and possible is love
i need thirst i need evidence i need devotions
i need december with its gift and blessing of snow
i need mary and her intricate figures
i need mary's archangelic braid
i need she who is and sister joan chittister
i need acadia and the soup du jour
i need workshops and open mics
i need oxford street and the little crepe cafe
i need a keyboard that enables diacritical marks
i need alisha and her high church anglican black panther prayers
i need morrissey and the alley by the railway station
i need to stop repeating myself
i need to stop berating myself
i need to entertain my higher power
i need to deceive my guardian angel
i need to pretend that everything is all right
i need to pretend that i am not ashamed of myself
on some deep ineradicable level
i need kate moorehead carroll as guiding light
i need to confess my sins to a priest who has given birth
i need to pray and not to charlton heston
Poetry by Uncle Meridian
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