(Wendy Cabell, January 15, 2025, feast day of (above) Our Lady of Banneux, Our Lady of the Seeds, Saint Ita of Killeedy, Saints Salome of Ujarma and Perozhavra of Sivnia, Saint Cosmas the Melodist, Saint Placid, Saint Teath (daughter of Saint Brychan of Brecknock, Saint Tarsicia of Rodez (granddaughter of King Clotaire II of the Franks, and sister of Saint Ferreolus of Uzès), Saints Britta and Maura, Blessed Diego de Soto (Mercedarian). Image from here.)
Our Lady of Lyric
(freely adapted from Audrey Lorde*)
nameless and formless—
about to be birthed,
but already felt
the Black Mother in each of us
--the poet—
whispers in our dreams,
I feel therefore
I can be free
*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by Audre Lorde’s “Poetry is Not a Luxury”, whose excerpts are compiled and freely adapted above. From Daisy Barrett Nash’s Legacy Lines series, January 15, 2025.
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