Poem: “The Choice”

By Nate Klug

To stand for once
outside my faith
 
to steady it
caught and squirming on a stick
up to mind’s 
inviting light
 
and name it!
for all its faults and facets
 
 
or keep waiting
 
to be claimed in it
 

“The Choice” from Consent by Nate Klug. Copyright © 2012 by Nate Klug. Reprinted with permission of the author.