GAS Featured Poet: Chris Bodor

Chris Bodor is a first generation American. He was born in 1967 in Connecticut to an English mother and a Hungarian father. After working for ten years in film production and audio-visual services in New York City, he moved to Florida in 2003. He was asked to start up a monthly poetry reading in August of 2009, on the last Sunday of every month in St. Augustine, Florida. During the past 25 years, his poems have appeared in many independent, small, and micro-press publications, such as the Lummox Journal, FM Quarterly, and Old City Life. Bodor is the Editor-In-Chief of the international literary journal A.C. PAPA (which stands of Ancient City Poets, Authors, Photographers, and Artists). 

File Cabinet Full of Sins

At the Good Friday service

members of the parish

wrote their sins on paper

and one after another

they nailed their confessions

to the wooden cross

set up near the altar.

After the mass

before I cleaned the carpet

and swept out the narthex

I removed each piece of paper from the cross

and placed them in a small plastic bag.

The anonymous sins of the congregation

are locked in my second floor office

in a file cabinet 

near the paint cans 

next to the dust mop

and the broken vacuum cleaner.

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