Amy Secrist

Tag: parenthood

  • 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…

  • Sweet Emmanuel

    Chocolate milk in the morning,knee-high hugs good-bye,chocolate-spotted suit pants,dark stains that won’t dry. In what disguise will he turn up today?Distressing, calm, or well?It seems he sleeps and wakes within us,sweet, Sweet Emmanuel. We are each a Christ to one another,each harnessing a dove.We are Christ to each other,loving and being loved.      …