Saint Michael and the Devil
Girl limbs on a boy’s trunk, shoulder full of quills, Saint Michael comes to trample the devil. The archangel rattles brass scales to weigh the creature at his feet—a sinuous seraph hissing with burns. Satan is weighed and found wanting something more than capriole eyes and kites of bony skin. The saint sends his demon down a fiery fault to earth, where want for someone such as Michael makes people here below reach for any supple creature that crawls out of the blue. Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review #32, Spring/Summer 2009 |
- Intro
- Home
- Kingdom Come
- Tunnel of Love
- Exit Now
- The Passion
- Texas Education
- Dumb Supper
- Good Year
- Toys
- Saint Michael and the Devil
- Invisible Knights
- The Rain Gauge
- Ponder
- Remainder
- Green Ghost
- December 13th
- Dedication
- Prevailing Wind
- Dreamland 1911
- 10
- On the Median
- These Things Happen
- White Water
- The October People
- Scene from a Moral Panic
- Estrellita
- Another Ending
- What We're Dealing With
- How Did the Foxes Die?
- There was a Man
- Bio. and credits