Praying Naked, by Katie Condon
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Dedication
Contents
Origin
On the seventh day God says, What you’ve got is virgin charm & a knife in your pocket
The Sacrifice’s Prayer
Aubade
Praying Naked
My mother gives a man permission
Volatile Elegy
What Matters Most
Hymn
Katie Condon, an American, One of the Roughs, a Kosmos in the Flesh.
We Need to Talk
Ode to Gabriella
Timestamps
Giving Myself Advice
At Poetry Readings I’m Always Drunk
I’m a Kick-Ass Woman
After All, Saint Catherine Is My Namesake
When the professor asked the workshop, Who among us now will speak about poetry ideologically? I thought with abandon ME! & then
In Winter
At the #1 Fried Chicken & Seafood
Don’t Be Bitter, Baby
Parable
Driving, 4 a.m
How to Know the Wildflowers
Poem from the Mouth of God
Getting Through Monday
Vow
The Real Self Is Very Scary
To Every Woman Who’s Been Kept a Secret
To the woman who accused me of not being a feminist, I’m sorry&
Argument for Loving from a Distance
To an Ex-Lover’s Daughter
Desire Is a Sickness
From Space, the Wildflowers Are One Bouquet on the Valley’s Grave
Real Elegy
Practicing Digressions
Resurrection
Acknowledgments
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