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Waiting in Vain

By Claire S. Lee

I’d like to sightsee God

one day, but I don’t know

where to go. My mother

sees him on the road

leading up to our home,

his invisible shadow

hot over her shoulders,

his visage reflected in my

dark-swept pupils. I

imagine God beckoning

to my mother, her nodding

chin hooked by his finger-

wick. Her eyes, eclipsed. Mine,

still searching.

 

 

Claire S. Lee is a student at Canyon Crest Academy. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and appears or is forthcoming in *82 Review, Rising Phoenix Review, and Eunoia Review, among others. She works as an editor for COUNTERCLOCK and as an editorial intern for The Blueshift Journal. Though she loves poetry and nonfiction, her favorite genre is historical fiction.

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