Charles R. Strietelmeier, author of Singing Flames and Gargoyles, is a retired Lutheran pastor.
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Mad Donna
02-24-2023
A poem.
Illustration by Ryan McQuade
Compulsively larger than life,
mom swaggered out loud.
Her eyes you could get lost in,
and they gripped like a drug.
The Virgin Mary twerking in a thong,
always herself but never the same,
never quite right
but never completely wrong,
she made me feel proud
and destroyed me with shame.