UNTAMED DREAMS
His voice through the lattice is quieter, closer, intimate in the way that small dark spaces make everything intimate.
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned,” I say. “It has been ten years since my last confession.”
“Tell me your sins.”
I take a breath. The confessional smells like a hundred years of whispered secrets. His breathing is audible through the screen, and I can hear him controlling it, performing calm.
“I’ve been having impure thoughts.”
A pause. “What kind of impure thoughts?”
“Sexual thoughts. About a man.”
“This is not uncommon. The flesh is –”