Get Close

Religion is intimate. We might like to think it’s about ideas and texts, but it’s about bodies, about touch. This poem traces how the tactile and the intimate erupted into a sacred spaces that I thought I’d understood. “Get Close” was first published, in a slightly different version, in Burnside Review.

Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo is the curator of Interfaith Muse and the editor of Inward Digest. Read more of her poetry at elizabethharlanferlo.com