Nathaniel Lee Hansen’s chapbook, <i>Four Seasons West of the 95th Meridian</i>, was published by Spoon River Poetry Press (2014). His work has appeared in <i>Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American
Sometimes it is best when you sit
and speak nothing, pray nothing, but be still.
Yet such actions contradict much
you have absorbed about prayer, against your will.
You learned the yes, Jesus