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The twenty-first-century church has always been a mystery to me. In a world where so many other phenomena – such as melting poles and heavily polluted areas with millions of people living in them – pose real threats to mankind, there is still a group of people who insist on turning to religion for answers.

As of this Spring, the ice caps melt inside his glass
in a fury of noes and yesses,
the pleasure of petrichor usually killed
by a necessary peppermint breeze.