Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The Lord’s Day Jan. 22, 2015

  

I still hear the bells in my head she heard that distant Sunday morning from a church right next door, and wonder what sweet pleasures she enjoyed the night before, the lips that kiss, and the fingers that reach through the buttons of her blouse, woken later alone to the ringing bells and perhaps guilt of having enjoyed too much after her Saturday night slipped into the dawn of the Lord’s Day, while the hands (and likely more) hadn’t yet finished with her unbuttoning, spreading her open, to push his fingers into places deep inside and then, more than merely fingers, waking later to find only his imprint on the sheets, but not his body or the sound of his voice, just the bells ringing out the Lord’s Day as her own fingers probe where that man’s fingers had gone.

Does she still feel him inside her even as the bells ring?


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