How Will You Raise Your Children? - Rachel Mennies

SOURCE: QUEEN MOB´S TEAHOUSE

Abraham or Abraham, spring
feast or spring fast? In what tongue
must you pray, Hebrew
or Latin? Do your holy men

anoint babies with water
or knives? Do you bless the wine
for the prophet coming or the prophet
gone? Where is the sun when

you bless the wine for the prophet
coming or the prophet gone?
Which fetish did your great-great-
grandfathers teach your great-

grandfathers, to sign
the cross or to pin
the yarmulke? Whose fetish
will live on in their tiny hands; who

will guide them through the air?
Will you lead down
the path of your certainty
with the left foot of day

or the left foot of night? And what
of us? The ones who mourn
a change, then change;
the ones who must.

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Poem republished from The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, published by Texas Tech University Pressin 2014.