by Adele Evershed
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| "God is nonbinary": GOP activates over Talarico’s past comments characterizing him as too radical for Texas —Texas Tribune, March 12, 2026 |
A fresh-faced politician insisted—
God is non-binary
like a snail, like a worm
maybe a gynandromorph—
half-female, half-sod,
like a Hebrew Character moth,
a real name that asks you to suspend disbelief
in other words—have faith
I imagine God—
the clownfish of the skies,
slipping behind enemy lines
a double agent
in the gender wars—
it almost makes me smile
the clownfish of the skies,
slipping behind enemy lines
a double agent
in the gender wars—
it almost makes me smile
But I can’t be bothered with any of this—
if God exists at all
their gender is the least of it
if God exists at all
their gender is the least of it
The real question,
as men, women, and children
are obliterated, is simple—
as men, women, and children
are obliterated, is simple—
Are you even there?
Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer who swapped the Valleys for the American East Coast. A Pushcart-nominated poet, her work has appeared in Poetry Wales, Comstock Review, Literary Mama and Modern Haiku, amongst others. Her poetry includes the collection, Turbulence in Small Spaces (Finishing Line Press) and a forthcoming collection, In the Belly of the Wail (Querencia Press). Her flash fiction includes the three novellas-in-flash Wannabe and
