Sodom & Gomorrah & Me

I imagine the final seconds of Lot’s wife.
The godhead infesting her body, setting fire to
her molecules and fanning it. The inside of a woman
eviscerated by an angel while her daughters watch.
The inside of a woman granulated and then dissolved.
The inside of a woman as an altar for which to practice
obeisance. For which to sacrifice bulls and cows and
chickens and women and girls. Salt flooding her central
nervous system as she watches from above, floating over
the body that is no longer her own and watching it fall away.
Witnessing her own exodus, one crystal at a time, on an
unforgiving desert wind blowing mercilessly through Israel.

Olivia Lehnert is a 22 year old graduate student living and studying social work in Chicago, Illinois. She has a passion for poetry and pursues it privately in her own time