Spiritual Growth

Women, meat, all jaws, Hughie feared;

Church-fed fear.

Pruned Hughie rattling inside himself,

no rattling outside,

but bloated sensationless, bone-dry tinder.

 

All pray: feed the soul; Hughie feeds the soul

 ‘til his soul is ballooning  out of his body,

 and he giving thanks for spiritual growth.

 

Concrete-heavy Hughie, all aching,

walking the earth like a space thing.