unequally yoked
with unbelievers
for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness
and what communion hath
light with darkness
Paul’s letter
to Corinthians
calls Derek and me
out by our names
let a woman learn
quietly with all submissiveness
I do not permit a woman to teach
or to exercise authority over a man
rather, she is
to remain quiet
the second chapter
of First Timothy
making man and god
sound the same
the heart is deceitful
above all things
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
the seventeenth chapter
of Jeremiah
a mockery of me back
in a boy’s bed lost