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What If God Is a Snowflake?

What If God Is a Snowflake?

Three brief poems of religious inquiry.

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Mark Leidner
Feb 18, 2024
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What If God Is a Snowflake

and every amen
is effectively a trigger
warning, intended
to help the Lord cope

with the psychologically
destabilizing effects
of all the comparatively
hollow thoughts

and godforsaken longings
that inevitably follow
the end of every
prayer offered

in holy passion?


My Friend the Lawyer

says Christmas is revolutionary
because it recasts …

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