Lord—is self harm ever devotional or
Is it always a form of possession?

...a smattering
of question marks:
g-d? g-d? G-d?

always, there is so much / i do not want.

Neither of us
take comfort from worship, but how
else is a country sated?

nightly I lift my quilt hoping
they are there.

re-flect (/ bend + again) (in)to meaning