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The God Issue
Fall 2013   Vol. 30 #1
Fall 2013   Vol. 30 #1

Poems/Not Poems

Faith & Doubt

By Jennifer Tseng

 
 

 

I was tending a deathbed at noon.

Doubt appeared beside me, an efficient nurse.

She touched everything in the room with her cloth:

the window, my eyelids, my mouth . . .

 

Like a mortal, this nurse

had a shadow Faith

who followed her, followed each

stroke of her cloth to completion.

 

How can I be sure of this?

I can’t be. I’m not here

to give you certainty, I’m here

to ask you, to believe.

 

∞

 

From the Fall 2013 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 30, No. 1)
© 2013 Jennifer Tseng

 

Author

Jennifer Tseng’s second book Red Flower, White Flower won the 2012 Marick Press Poetry Prize. Listen to her read her poems at: http://www.fishousepoems.org/artist/tseng-jennifer/

Author

Jennifer Tseng’s second book Red Flower, White Flower won the 2012 Marick Press Poetry Prize. Listen to her read her poems at: http://www.fishousepoems.org/artist/tseng-jennifer/

 
 
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