Sunday School Circa 1950
“Who made you?” was always
The question
The answer was always
“God.”
Well, there we stood
Tree feet high
Head bowed
Leaning into
Bosoms.
Now
I no longer recall
The Catechism
Or brood on the genesis
Of life
No.
I ponder the exchange
Itself
And salvage mostly
the leaning.
by Alice Walker
from Her Blue Body Everything we Know
Harvest Books, 1991