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“Frankly, I Follow Jesus!” - Frankenstein
“Wrapped In The Love Of Jesus!” - Mummy

Nightmare creatures
removed of nightmare,

given smiles and
proclamation. Creatures

meant to jar and make
us question freed of

questions - granted faith
with exclamation marks.

Where is the angst appropriate
to a cobbled together, not-

meant-to-be man? Or a body
in its burial clothes,

and yet alive enough
to move and haunt?

Both so far from
what we mean when

we say “resurrection.”
But maybe that explains it.

Longing to break out of half-lives,
they’ll smile at anyone who asks.

Megan McDermott is a poet and Episcopal priest living in Western Massachusetts. In 2018, she graduated from Yale Divinity School with a Master's of Divinity degree and a certificate from the Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary program dedicated to religion and the arts. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including Rust + Moth, Rogue Agent Journal, Sad Girl Review, Gyroscope Review, The Christian Century, and Relief.