The Word

Wrestle the written
And the Incarnate.
Reverently adore the
Holy hieroglyph,
Diction and drafting,
Laud and lexicon.
Neither space nor time
Nor anything created
Can touch your soul,
But Logos can.
Existing before time 
For this--
Soul-shifting rebirth, 
Redirection of function.
Power in minuscule
Flecks and flexures:
I am rewritten, 
My being restructured,
Speaking and hearing,
Worshipping the Word.


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Olivia Oster is a writer living on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, whose fiction and poetry explore the spiritual aspect of common everyday life as well as the elements of life with which she is most familiar: chronic pain, parenting, writing, the Bible and homemaking. Olivia’s poetry has been accepted in As Surely as the Sun, Spirit Fire Review and others. She has also published A New Grammary, a book of grammar formulas, and a poetry chapbook called Poetic Faith. Olivia is a teacher, wife, mother of five and student of the Word.