The New Testament Quotes

“I don't remember how I hurt myself,
The pain mine
Long enough for me
To lose the wound that invented it”
― Jericho Brown, The New Testament

“Hurt by me, they will not call me
Brother. Hear me coming,
And they cross their legs. As men
Are wont to hate women,
As women are taught to hate
Themselves, they hate a woman
They smell in me, every muscle
Of her body clenched”
― Jericho Brown, The New Testament

“I, too, know the science of building men
Out of fragments in a little light
Where I'll be damned if lightning don't

Strike as I forget one
May have a thief's thumb,

Another, a murderer's arm,
And watch the men I've made leave
Like an idea I meant to write down,

Like a vehicle stuck
In reverse, like the monster

God came to know the moment
Adam named animals and claimed
Eve, turning from heaven to her

As if she was his
To run. No word he said could be tamed.

No science. No design. Nothing taken
Gently into his hand or your hand or mine,
Nothing we erect is our own.”
― Jericho Brown, The New Testament