POEM IN WHICH GOD TALKS TO ME
I’m working really hard
up here. Everything I do
is for the family. I’ve heard
your prayers. Enough
already. Stop
being such a damn nag.
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Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami, she lives in Dania Beach.
I love the whole “In Which” series, as if a poem is a machine, say, in which it actually gets to perform a task. So good to see this one.
Love the humor in this poem.
Love the voice of this god – so relatable!