Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Little Red Dress (WC)



(Wendy Cabell, March 29, 2022, feast day of Our Lady of Ara Coeli (interesting Sybil history), Saint Gladys (above; daughter of Saint Brychan, wife of Saint Gwynllyw, mother of Saint Cadoc) and Blessed Berold of Mount Carmel. Image from here.)


Little Red Dress



“Never too big for a little red dress”

whispers the winged one upon the rose

slipping on clogs for wiggly toes and 

sweeping the mind of all unkind–-

whilst at it to treasure

a border so fine.




*From combined prompts: response to a poem mentioned in March 29, 2022’s BreathReadWrite, Kim Addonizio's What Women Want; as well as post-meditation reflecting after Jamie Deering's Mindfulness in Relationships (Priory of Saint Placid, WA), March 8-29, 2022.


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