Psalm for Little Liam in the Spider-Man Backpack by Jeff Callaway
Psalm for Little Liam in the Spider-Man Backpack By Jeff Callaway Texas Outlaw Poet "Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such." — Matthew 19:14, Douay-Rheims They came for him on January the twentieth, the year of Our Lord two thousand and twenty-six, and the sky over Minnesota was the color of old bone. He was five years old. He had a Spider-Man backpack. He had a blue knit bunny hat pulled low over ears that had never heard a sentence begin with you have the right. He had come home from preschool the way five-year-olds do — small feet on cold pavement, trusting the driveway, trusting the door, trusting that the world had agreed to be safe for someone his size — and they were waiting for him. Masked. Federal. Counting him toward a quota. Lord God of Abraham, God of the widow and the sojourner, God Who told Your people forty-six times in the Torah — forty-six times — to welcome the stranger because you yourselves w...
