For Starlight (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, published in Writers at Play Presents: The Art of Letter Writing, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2023. A previous poem, revisited to include in a letter for Daisy Barrett Nash's Writers at Play, letter writing series 2022. Image is of Stella Maris, from here)

For Starlight

I am the root and 

the offspring of David,

the bright morning star. 

-Rev 22:16

 Words they are bowls for Starlight. True joy in the smoothing, the holding them. True fear in the thinking that's all there is. But

no worries–-

words they are bowls

for Starlight

Front Porch (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, November 2, 2022, All Souls Day, and feast day of Our Lady of Emminont, Our Lady dell' Anima, the (above) Ozerianka Icon of the Mother of God, and of Saints Baya and Maura, and Saint Winifred of Wales. Image from here.)

Front Porch

Sit or not, just settle.

Swing or not, its motion an

elixir, find-fix cracks in the

minutes, hours; the opened

calendar page just

a window

From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by “A Perfect Mess” by Mary Karr and classmates’ journal excerpts; from Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite Containing Our Multitudes series, November 2, 2022.