Laura L. Hanhauser

Staring Inside

If you think life is a journey to find the ever elusive God

and you spend your days by the river

staring up at the sky, looking for signs

ignoring the angel inside you

I suggest you stop searching your tiny home State.

Eat this apple with your dirty hands.

Let it mix with the blood

inside your mouth. Struggle to swallow the thick mixture

like I struggle to swallow your ineptness

to see God is already here in the sky, in the river and in your blood.