The Vessel
C. K. Williams
1992
I’m trying to pray; one of the voices of my mind says, “God, please help me do this,”
but another voice intervenes: “How conceive God’s interest would be to help you believe?”
Is this prayer? Might this exercise be a sign, however impure, that such an act’s under way,
that I’d allowed myself, or that God had allowed me, to surrender to this need…
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