Amy Secrist

Tag: cleaning out

  • A Sacramental

    It is Advent and I am cleaning out the desk. I find expired coupons, obsolete proofs of purchase, useless how-to manuals. Beneath unopened instructional cd’s and old, unframed photos a gem is gleaming and I open it: “May Christ and all the angels linger long in September’s slanting light; gathering around your nebulous charity that once…

  • Nature

    My soul must be crooked – not curved – I mean. It must have angles and open boxes, not fissures, cracks, or splits, but myriad unclosed cubes. For as round as my universe is, for all the atmosphere and vaporous aura, for the spheres of planets and bright balls of gas shining around my sky,…