dear ghost
They stand against western sky, colored by the sunlight they took with them. When they speak, it sounds like running water. I’m the only one left here who remembers some of their stories.
Read MorePosted by Bob Bickford | Aug 9, 2024 | Editor's Picks, Featured, Perspectives |
They stand against western sky, colored by the sunlight they took with them. When they speak, it sounds like running water. I’m the only one left here who remembers some of their stories.
Read MorePosted by Samir Knego | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured, Perspectives |
It was as if we heard a voice all at once. Calling us to the new day. Broken for you, and for me.
Read MorePosted by Gary Phillips | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, Perspectives |
I’ll say this: sometimes a woman has a seed of waiting imbedded in her by circumstance and blood, her life a long exhalation of birthings until the last one out of the canal is herself alone. Sufficient and reveled in solitude.
Read MorePosted by Andrew Collins | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured, Perspectives |
I had always assumed the Sunday School language I grew up with of God washing our sins away was metaphorical. But the winter storms have me second guessing this. Water, I’m realizing, is its own form of incarnation.
Read MorePosted by Lory Widmer Hess | Nov 10, 2023 | Editor's Picks, Featured, Perspectives |
Each time we speak, we give birth. Something of our soul goes forth into the world, embodied in air
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