Rebekah M. Devine
Jonathan Strips & Gives David His Robe & Armor
Wear me, son of Jesse.
I am myrrh, peat, & honey musking your body,
& flax linen caressing your shoulders,
kissing your neck.
I am the burnished scales riveted across your chest,
bronze shell of your tender coils.
Buckle me around your waist, let my leather taste your hips.
Bind me to your shins, trove of sinew, bristle, & bone.
Fit your arrows to my tamarisk curves, ply my bowstring.
Grip my hilt in your hands, guide me to your sheath.
Wear me, beloved: I am David & you are Jonathan.
I am myrrh, peat, & honey musking your body,
& flax linen caressing your shoulders,
kissing your neck.
I am the burnished scales riveted across your chest,
bronze shell of your tender coils.
Buckle me around your waist, let my leather taste your hips.
Bind me to your shins, trove of sinew, bristle, & bone.
Fit your arrows to my tamarisk curves, ply my bowstring.
Grip my hilt in your hands, guide me to your sheath.
Wear me, beloved: I am David & you are Jonathan.
Rebekah M. Devine (she/her) is a white, queer writer residing in Reno, Nevada. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in P-Queue, Rust and Moth, Rejection Letters, and FERAL, among others. She holds an MLitt in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts and an MA in Biblical Exegesis. She is an MFA student in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women.