Ray Milland Whenever I get up to read scripture at the Sunday morning service I think of Ray Milland in Alias Nick Beal when Rev. Garfield asks Nick to read from the Psalms and Nick though he’s shed horns & tail for a more politic approach of course refuses because he cannot even touch the Holy Bible and each time I stretch out my hands to touch the pages I imagine for a heartbeat how much good it would do my drowsy church-fellows to see someone burst into flames on a Sunday morning but evidently I’m too saturated with doubt to ignite
David E. Poston is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Letting Go (Fernwood Press). His poetry has appeared in Cider House Review, The MacGuffin, North Carolina Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, and South Florida Poetry Journal, among others, and has been widely anthologized. Essays, book reviews, and fiction have appeared in Bull, Broad River Review, MoonShine Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and Sugar House Review, among others.
