I first learned that my father was the Messiah in 1989, just days before my 20th birthday. The two of us were in a coffee shop, not far from Tel Aviv University, where he was a professor of statistics and I, a second-year student of philosophy.
By Ashley Parker Owens Ashley Parker Owens is an Appalachian writer, artist, and spiritualist living in Richmond, Kentucky, USA. Her previous published poetry collections include Euphoric Drift (2018), Retrospecter (2019), Unruly Spirits (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), Puppet (Rinky Dink Press, 2018), and Territorial Misfortune (2017). See video poems at https://www.youtube.com/@visual_poems  https://www.ashleyparkerowens.com
