Editor’s Note: Diamond Forde was a finalist for the 2020 Boston Review Annual Poetry Prize and her works appears in our annual literary anthology Ancestors.



Our bodies, temples—shouldn’t that mean anyone can worship? Shouldn’t that mean it’s okay to dip my hips into a communion bowl?
Editor’s Note: Diamond Forde was a finalist for the 2020 Boston Review Annual Poetry Prize and her works appears in our annual literary anthology Ancestors.


