Steven Byrd
Crisis Theology
He transcribed every line of
Saint John’s Revelation,
then reversed the words until
he found a love letter buried
under the bones, a fable
of a white-robed prince fishing
burnt cities out of the sea,
and unbreaking each brick,
then placing them to make
a world so miraculous that
the saved leapt down from Heaven
to walk the imperfect streets.
Steven Byrd recently received his MFA in poetry from NCSU.