I dropped out of communion school when I was little yet I still have dreams of being trapped in those tiny classrooms. The speaker in this poem tries to reconcile what it means to fail at communion, at something you’re born into. 

Jon Woolwine is a Chicago-based writer studying poetry through the Poetry Center of Chicago and the Gilliam Writers Group. He is an active volunteer gardener for native prairie initiatives around the city and helps run a monthly poetry workshop with a handful of friends.