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Pray the sight
back to her eyes and
free the prisoners
by judge baptized and 
wed the lovers
against law’s might – 
give your life
in the name of it –
call it brave,
call it saintly,
call it love –
trading candies
over martyrdom, 
swapping hearts
like he did
in the name of Him.

This article appears in February 2025.

Hannah Monsour is a professional typewriter poet and actress based in Brooklyn, N.Y. She writes custom, on-the-spot poems on her 1952 Smith Corona.