Tag: growth
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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…
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Suffer the Ache, Sweet Babies
When earth finally moves again and soil gives up after soaking rain, we watch seeds pods crack open, spindly white stems humbly folded, their heads still buried in dirt. I marvel at miracles, little babes surrounding me like folds of skirts, hugging my legs and screaming all sorts of nonsense because they are tired and hungry. I…
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A Candle Prayer
Come comfort this hurried heart with love and kindness this tired heart with quick forgiveness this beating heart with solid restfulness; uncover the pricelessness beneath these worthless days beneath these screams and shouts; show me green shoots sprouting through this drenched earth, massive oaks and maples, beech trees popping newborn leaves into this rain-soaked air. I…
Amy Secrist 