Recovering
by Nathan Brown


Having grown up
a Southern Baptist,
I awake still, here
in my almost 50s,

with a sense of shock
and divine fear that
there is a sexy
and naked
woman lying
next to me in bed.

And that this
is somehow
okay with God.






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