Audio: Read by the author.
from Psalm 22
My God my God
why are you so far from my groaning
my cry
many encircle me
they open their mouths
ravening
and I am poured out
bones heart breast
they stare and gloat over me
divide my clothes
O Lord
save me from
my brothers
who eat
Allison Funk’s sixth book of poems, The Visible Woman, will be published by Parlor Press in 2020. She is professor emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.