AARON SANDBERG

FALL/WINTER 2020 ISSUE #01 POET

Aaron Sandberg has appeared or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Sporklet, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Abridged, Unbroken, The Racket, Writers Resist, Neologism, Yes Poetry, perhappened mag, One Sentence Poems, The Daily Drunk, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Illinois. You might find him—though socially distant—on Instagram @aarondsandberg.

THE ONLY CHURCH THAT IS IS

The only church that is 
is a fox in the yard 
hunting your hens. 

You still believe it’s right 
to hold the gun with both hands
clasped in prayer 
and that every time you lift it, 
it is in worship. 

To them there is nothing 
more God than you at the gate,
squinted eye above a barrel,
waiting for wolves in all that dark— 

still a god in the morning,
hatchet crossing your heart,
approaching the coop in 
service, grace, and hunger.