and contains plenty of the features we expect in poems. Even though it is syntactically complex (it's only two sentences), the lines are heavily endstopped with solid, repetitive masculine endings and there is a lot of sound play. In "trespasses" the feminine ending (meaning that the last syllable isn't stressed) seems to replicate the very act of trespass--by going one step further than it should--and that "amen" is a neat full stop, a click on the send button of the email to God. But give me real poetry over religion.
from The Guardian: Religions are poems
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