Rebecca Foust is the author of The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, Paradise Drive, and Only (Four Way Books, 2022). Her honors include the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the National Indie Excellence Award for Poetry. The 2017–2019 Marin Poet Laureate, Foust volunteers as a board member for Marin Poetry Center.

Photograph by William Harvey.

Divine Apparitions

by Rebecca Foust

I thought I saw Jesus in a jizz stain,
his hippie beard and soft brown eyes, then again
in the Cheez Whiz and, last, in the long tear
in the screen where Dad kicked it in. Young,
I yearned to be Catholic, and Jesus seemed nice,
a kid-brother-like gull who of course would fall
for the line that dying in agony saves the world.

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