‘If Cows had a God, he’d be a Cow’ & ‘Marionettes on God’s Stage’
Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet.
If Cows had a God, he’d be a Cow.
Spirituality necessitates the soul to manifest.
My soul has never been a faithful believer,
not in the anthropocene of divine or deific. Yet
when nesting in the web of trees, feeling Sol on
skin, a grand picture of Gaia crafting the seasons
with weathered hands doesn’t seem as abstract.
On days when the sky sits without inspiration,
when no God nor Goddess comes to claim
creation, it feels most absurd to look to God
for guidance on Earth. Too removed from our
distorted world, where God can be a tether to
a child buried too soon. Or a means to justify
taking bread and wine from neighbors.
A God too human to be divine or deliver
comfort. The fates too slow with their hands to
truly thread millions of stories, lest they forget
the fireflies. Forgive me, blind to omnipotence.
My soul, the spirit of atoms shared between us,
stars, and leaves. A far more mystic mystery to
be masters of miracles, or cause of careless
coincidence. What more deific and less human,
than something created never to be destroyed.
Marionettes on God’s Stage
God, to me, seemed a director or
performer. Pulling on strings setting
scenes. The best plays, they say, are
tragedies. But I find no comfort in a
puppeteer. No desire to practice form.
I’ve sired severed strings since infancy,
with wonder if thread could be borne,
if the twin twines of fate could be torn.
Or if it is heresy to consider myself
certain, capable of careful creation.
Carter T. Fourie is a new writer with a passion for storytelling. They focus on queer perspectives, but write anything and everything, both creatively and academically [https://www.youtube.com/@CartersBookNok].
