Monday, November 11, 2013

Excerpt from "Praying Drunk" by Andrew Hudgins

Praying Drunk by Andrew Hudgins : The Poetry Foundation

I’m sorry for the times I’ve driven
home past a black, enormous, twilight ridge.
Crested with mist, it looked like a giant wave
about to break and sweep across the valley,
and in my loneliness and fear I’ve thought,
O let it come and wash the whole world clean.
Forgive me. This is my favorite sin: despair—
whose love I celebrate with wine and prayer.

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