- Grace
- We tell ourselves the truth at random times:
- what we crave from the menu, what sounds ridiculous on film.
- Otherwise, we hoard secrets: brown mice building a nest
- in the center of the woodpile, faking an enthusiasm for darkness.
- What a tragedy, to be such gullible liars.
- Can we not learn to say what it is we want?
- Security and romance, just the same as the patty melt?
- We rarely allow ourselves to be small (we’re just crickets in reality).
- We are afraid of what will happen when everyone sees that
- we desperately hope there is a God.
- Such clever people have no use for grace.
- That He Knows about the Lilac Tree—
- —which only lately
- announced itself to me
- in the corner yard
- behind spurting weeds
- Surrounded,
- I remember as humble
- as I read.
Julia Wehner has been writing poems since her first poetry unit in the third grade (the birthplace of such works as “If Only I Could Marry Food”). Her largest dreams for the future include composing piano music, educating her future children in the art of noticing, and cooking every meal with home-grown fresh herbs. She hopes to tell honest stories through everything she writes, innovating commonly-felt human emotions in an attempt to catch readers off guard: to remind them how richly good it is to feel, and to live.