(Wendy Cabell, June 4, 2022, feast day of (above) Our Lady of Bocco ("I have come to teach you the way of happiness on earth", "Man, like the bird, has two wings to fly: creativity and freedom"), Our Lady of the Hill (Saint Ambrose victory over Arianism), and Saints Mary and Martha, Saint Sophia of Ainos, Saint Christa of Sicily, and Blessed Menda Isategui. Tonight begins Pentecost/Shavuot. Image from here.)
Nearly Pentecost, 2022
Even to the roughest surf there's a rhythm…
if you don't look back…
–Carl Philips, “Radiance Versus Ordinary Light”
if bullets were bubbles
rocks rosemary, life lavender
field that it is–-give sway--
burst of breath, brush of
breeze: Spirit's
sweep
*From combined prompts: Freewrite as inspired by Brian Turner’s “2000 Lbs”, and by pondering what is the opposite of gun; from Lisa Freedman’s Imagination and Justice BreathReadWrite (IWWG International Women’s Writing Guild), June 4, 2022.
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