Tag: catholic family life
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Through the Glass
Driving beneath a canopy of clouds along the naked treeline turns the sun into flashes of heat against my cheek light and shadow light and shadow light and shadow the gifts and sorrows a matter of perspective looking just right through the window
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Seeing Love
Squished banana adornes the counter, turning formica to quartz, sparkling, innocence like the eyes of infants. A vase is filled, broccoli blooms buttery and the cilantro bolts to corriander, tiny white flowers like lace. Stalks of swiss chard, their deep red veins and ruffling green leaves stand supportive at the bouquet’s back and the mint…
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On a Walk
This fresh buckeye shines, just cracked from its prickly shell. You glow, giddy with discovery bouyant with purpose knowing only this, now, air, wind, leaves, tricycle, sidewalk, pedals. I watch the back of your hand move sideways across your lips, your fingers wipe the itch from your eyes, your lids blink and your nose wrinkles.…
Amy Secrist 