Poetry Magazine
The Choice
To stand for once
outside my faith
to steady it
caught and squirming on a stick
up to mind’s
inviting light
and name it!
for all its faults and facets
or keep waiting
to be claimed in it
Source: Poetry (November 2010).
Biography
Nate Klug was born in Minnesota, grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and earned a BA in English at the University of Chicago. In 2010 he was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation.
Klug is a Master of Divinity student at Yale Divinity School and a candidate for ordained ministry in the United Church of Christ. His poems and reviews have appeared in the Christian Century, Literary Imagination, Poetry, the Yale . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Religion, Faith & Doubt
Poetic Terms Free Verse
If you disagree with this poem's categorization, make a suggestion.
Your results will be limited to content that appeared in Poetry magazine.
