The Virgin Hagiosoritissa

from Children of the Anxious City by Al Russell

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Mary’s puffy crow's feet
have been crying about the world
again, she misled us all.
How in the hell
did that painter jot her down so fast,
before she could get her makeup on
like normal?
I’ve seen those Hollywood epics
with their false street preachers rubbed in bone dust
on every damned corner,
I’ve seen their ladies with the lovely hair
all done up—the quiet,
rosacea'd one smiling moronically at God
with clean, clear eyes is not Mary. These are Mary’s
glum dark bleary eyes like unfortunate
sky-cataracts, her filthy horned hands.

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from Children of the Anxious City, released January 14, 2019

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Al Russell North Carolina

Al Russell is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. She is a poetry editor at Outlook Springs literary journal. She is also an ordained minister of the Church of the Subgenius. She lives in North Carolina.