For Some Vague Miracle
you can ask around
but Christ has only risen
once
and my reason has fallen
a thousand times and my
poverty has been assaulted
and fortified
by cans of beer,
delivered pizza,
satellite TV,
and I inhale it all
and I watch that TV
David LaBounty is a poet from Michigan and the current writer-in-residence for Megan's Closet, a literary workshop site with a print publication forthcoming. His novel, The Trinity, is being published by Offense Mechanisms, an imprint of Silverthought Press.