Sunday, March 20, 2022

Survivor (WC)

 


(Wendy Cabell, March 20, Spring Equinox, feast day of Our Lady of Calevourt, (above) Saint Photini. Saint Josef Bilczewski, Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Saint Clement of Ireland. The Jewish calendar today commemoratesTorah Sages Escape (75 BC). Image is of Our Lady of Loretto (feast day was March 18, Shushan Purim), from here.)


Survivor



Was it so you could imagine a

time: simply human again? 

Sunflower on table, steaming mug. 

hands clasped. Bird trill, thrill of

rain, rising sun once more, then 

another, no longer a need 

to fall 




*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by Shailja Patel’s ICC Kenya Trials. From Lisa Freedman’s BreathReadWrite, March 20, 2022.

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