The colors of the crowned lamb’s banner queer a country parish’s stained glass by pinking, whiting, and bluing its light.
Its parishioners thumb blindly through their missals. Don’t we call His (be)coming transubstantiation? The Summa explains: while the host’s accidents remain, their substance has altogether changed— or, rather, become truth.
Each mass, divinity (be)comes to say: “judge not a soul by its cover.”
Thom C. Addington (he/him) is a queer, Catholic, rural Southern writer with Appalachian roots raised on Rappahannock land in King & Queen County, Virginia. Thom currently serves as Associate Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences at Reynolds Community College. His creative work appears (or is forthcoming) in Neologism Poetry Journal, Swim Press, Luna Luna, Arkana, Outskirts Literary Journal, and elsewhere.
Image Credit: “The Kiss” by Aakriti Kuntal
Aakriti Kuntal is a poet, writer, and visual artist from India whose work has been published in various literary journals. She was awarded the Reuel International Prize 2017, shortlisted for the RL Poetry Award 2018, and nominated for the Best of the Net. She is the author of “God, am I your eyelid?” (Sigilist Press) and “Night breaks apart, like pomegranate seeds in my palm” (Seagull Press/University of Chicago).
