Frank Carellini

your thing got like 12 likes

that is a lot of likes

that is all it took               for Christ

to feel chosen             to feel

the weight of the world’s sin

and offer his body in form

of bread and wine

yours look good

in that filter the madonna’s veil

is, too, clarendon

and all she had to do

was pray—

there is a search engine optimizing for your tongue

and now in two-days, not three, there is 

deliverance.

Previously or soon to be published in Rabid Oak, Wild Roof, Hobart, among other gracious journals, Frank primarily focuses on poetry that incorporates elements of time, memory, and place in an increasingly digital & automated world.