Tag: family life
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An Embrace After Winter
I sit at the kitchen counter, you come and slide your arm diagonally across my chest, above my left arm and beneath my right so now my head rests on the meat of your shoulder. I curl my arm around yours and lay my hand at your elbow. I feel my core release and you bear…
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Of a November Morning
Venus adorns the morning’s crescent, a glowing diamond in this eastern sky, while waves of clouds roll beneath the moon’s waning, this daily joining in, a practiced participation, these lonely dives beneath love’s surface, breaking into rocks of selfishness where gleaming bands of diamonds speak about grace, sparkling mercies rolling beneath our smiles, countless gifts adorning our…
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An All-Saints Kind of Gratitude
I look back through Novemember’s just-hanging-on leaves, the negative space of our promises to drive through Malabar’s winding road, taking in October’s blasts of color. The weeks have whipped by, the leaves ignoring my requests to stay, to never fall away, and my melancholy drips bitter without the sweet. Then I see our love’s first fruits hanging on…
Amy Secrist 