From NPR’s website, (author interviews)….by Nate Klug, a theology student at Yale Divinity School.
Mercy
Its water-torture-slow
wend in me. Its work
like the reverse of work.
No wonder human
praise won’t stick.
No wonder anger’s
more often summoned,
its hum, ready-made,
that steadies my head
like hospital television,
throwing blue rumor
for hours at no one.