In her poem “Mutual Mass”, Drema Drudge introduces us to a god who is weary, taking solace in her pilgrims in the way they take solace in her. “It’s a poem that is dear to me, and I hope it will speak to others, too,” Drema told The Dewdrop. She remarked that her poem “bends toward survival not as a grand gesture, but as the daily, electric act of staying.”
Mutual Mass
This god meets
her weary pilgrims
with a cup of cider
and a secret:
she’s as tired as you.
Stained with the saints’ prayers,
she sits beside you,
and her closed eyes ask only
for your
silent witness.
That’s her only wish.
Bless you.
You don’t realize it,
but you were
made for this.
Drema Drudge
Drema Drudge is a novelist and poet whose work blends emotional candor and the everyday with longing. She earned her MFA from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. Her poetry has appeared in The Louisville Review, The Word’s Faire, and others, with work forthcoming in Cathexis Northwest Press. www.dremadrudge.com
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