{"id":11081,"date":"2014-04-21T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2014-04-21T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:07:54","slug":"renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2014\/04\/21\/renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Monday: renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Returning to my “Mary Monday” poetry<\/a> series, from oh-so-long ago….<\/em><\/p>\n

How I wish that I’d read this poem before I spent three hours at the DMV last week, getting my stolen Driver’s License replaced:<\/p>\n

(from the Writer’s Almanac<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\n

Renewal<\/h2>\n

by Jeffrey Harrison<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At the Department of Motor Vehicles
\nto renew my driver’s license, I had to wait
\ntwo hours on one of those wooden benches
\nlike pews in the church of Latter Day
\nMeaninglessness, where there is no
\nstained glass (no windows at all, in fact),
\nno incense other than stale cigarette smoke
\nemanating from the clothes of those around me,
\nand no sermon, just an automated female voice
\ncalling numbers over a loudspeaker.
\nAnd one by one the members of our sorry
\ncongregation shuffled meekly up to the pitted
\naltar to have our vision tested or to seek
\nredemption for whatever wrong turn we’d taken,
\nor pay indulgences, or else be turned away
\nas unworthy of piloting our own journey.
\nBut when I paused to look around, using my numbered
\nticket as a bookmark, it was as if the dim
\nfluorescent light had been transformed
\nto incandescence. The face of the Latino guy
\nin a ripped black sweatshirt glowed with health,
\nand I could tell that the sulking white girl
\naccompanied by her mother was brimming
\nwith secret excitement to be getting her first license,
\nalready speeding down the highway, alone,
\nwith all the windows open, singing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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