Ash Wednesday Because I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope to turnDesiring this man’s gift and that man’s scopeI know longer strive…
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We have an elm that towers over our barn. The wind rocks her branches and I see a big woman, her eyes closed, swaying as if to fierce prayers.
For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and…
Just Friends I was the girl they gave the safe hearts to. –the candies with notes stamped in red.I couldn’t be trusted with Adore or Kiss MeAnytime because the boys…
With freezing rain last week, then cold, with no warmth to melt it, the weather reaches for my neck, bites hard, leaving a mark. I think “batter my heart three-personed…
I stood in Tessie’s stall sifting shavings, manure and plates of frozen urine. The barn’s colors were brown tones, the sun shining in through the open door. Both mares were…
I was standing in McDonald’s, waiting for my Egg McMuffin, standard fare after Weight Watchers, when a man tapped me on the shoulder and said, “You’re Katie. I had you…
Rain, a Disappointment 1.The horses stood a couple hands taller, puffed up like cats, running in the paddocks, an east wind, brushed off Lake Michigan and rain coming. The weather…
The pulley came off the top of our barn, where they hauled loose hay up through a door that flopped down. The farmers before us would haul loose hay up…
Advent Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered; And give ear, all remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird yourselves, yet be shattered Devise a plan but it will…