Hope Is the Thing in Emails

I got an email the other day
with the subject line
“Bible Flower Heals Hemorrhoids.”

Don’t worry—I didn’t open it.

I checked to see the sender,
assumed it was my mother,
but it was spam (of course,
it was, you knew that).

But it got me thinking.

About hemorrhoids, sure,
but about Bible flowers too.
And healing. Namely healing.

So, while it’s true I didn’t open it—
I couldn’t bring myself to delete it either.

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Marissa Glover lives in Florida, where she’s busy dodging storms and swatting bugs. Her poetry collection Let Go of the Hands You Hold was released by Mercer University Press in 2021. Box Office Gospel was published by Mercer in 2023. Follow her on Twitter at _MarissaGlover_.