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Jason Morphew

Jason Morphew is author of the poetry chapbook In Order to Commit Suicide and has been interviewed about it in Quarterly West. He started life in a mobile home in Pike County, Arkansas; at UCLA he is finishing his PhD dissertation, Hamlet's Petrarchism.

Evangelical Christianity

No horror is horror
until it is

escaped

carried with you
into your child's face

cross spinning in the DNA
cross rising in the pool
murder moving

through the heart of love.