2 Quotes Tagged: rapture

Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only allows one to live
at a more precise address — were I to be searched for
I'd be found much faster.
My distinguishing marks
are rapture and despair.

From 'Sky', in the collection 'Miracle Fair

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America — we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.