Even today
tourists come here
for more than
the blue Aegean sea,
the little cave
carved into the
mountainside,
a cell without bars.
Anyone who takes
the boat to this
empty coast
must secretly hope
the Spirit still hovers
in the air, waits
for the next apostle
with eyes to see,
ears to hear.
If one man
can be called
out of darkness,
seized by the roots
of his hair and dragged
to the highest heaven,
so can another.
WILLIAM MILLER is an award-winning author of numerous children’s books, including Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree, Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery, and Richard Wright and the Library Card. He lives in York, Pennsylvania, where he teaches African-American literature and creative writing at York College.
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