Rebellion of Sisyphus (WC)

(Wendy Cabell, January 24, 2022, feast day of Our Lady of Damascus (modern miracle here), of Our Lady of Tears, of (above) Saint Xenia ("stranger") of St. Petersburg, Saint Xenia of Rome, Saint Francis de Sales, and Blessed Paula Gambara Costa. Jewish calendar today remembers Rebbetzin Chaya Mushkah Schneerson (1901-1988). Image from here.)

Rebellion of Sisyphus   

(in memory of Thich Nhat Hanh; after Stephen

Dunn’s Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness)

What would I be without this burden? Hand 

pried from rock, finds her tea mug, dunk of 

bread. The mountain yet, right outside the

window. Not in here. Glint of glass.

turn of back, on what could have been. 

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by Stephen Dunn’s Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness. From Lisa Freedman’s Breathe Read Write, January 24, 2022.