Shared Religion
This author is a recipient
of the Sigma Tau Delta Award
I pray at the altar
where our hands are plunged
into suds, fingers grazing
beneath the surface, and
the smell of your neck
fills my nose. You love
Palmolive and I love
the rings:
dripping,
taken off in haste.
Our song plays,
you sing and I dance.
Bubbles cling
to our freckled wrists.
We let the dishes pile up,
so we can share in mutual
worship—pressed
against the warm basin,
intertwined in the ritualistic
religion of domesticity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Isabelle Nelson ('23) is currently an elementary school teacher in Atlanta, GA. She is the co-author of the Annie Abbott and The Druid Stones books and is currently working on the third book in the series. In the next year, Isabelle plans to move to Chicago, where she will pursue her master's degree and write her next novel.
