Juanita Rey
Plea
Cover Art: Georges Rouault, "The Righteous, like Sandalwood, Perfume the Axe That Falls on Them," 1948. Aquatint & drypoint w/ roulette over photo. MOMA.
Plea
The hymn begins
at the altar but within a note or two I’m surrounded by its voices. Everyone is singing me dizzy and swooning. Oh God, I am through being grateful. You don’t know what he’s done to me. |
Juanita Rey is a Dominican poet who has been in this country five years. Her work has been published in Pennsylvania English, Harbinger Asylum, Petrichor Machine and Madcap Poets.
past, Simon Perchik next, stephanie roberts