Prayer Life
By Josiah Cox
Prayer comes naturally
not at all
Distracted abstracted
roadkill raw
Even unrefined minds
taste its flaw
Its rotted impotence
locks the jaw
I’ve heard of seraphim
chefs that fall
Braise tongue to new
briquette form
Praise perfect storm
Josiah Cox currently serves as a junior lecturer in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Literary Matters, Bad Lilies, Commonweal, Christianity and Literature, and elsewhere. He is from Kansas City, Missouri.
