(Wendy Cabell, May 8, 2025)
I’d almost forgotten, this year a Jubilee*,
(thoughts, as unbeknownst, Pope Leo XIV ‘s electing)
Pilgrims of hope,
Pope Francis Emeritus’ theme. Loosed,
the debts, notes, former claims upon our days.
We can always start again, morning’s tea bag says…
Do I really need to process, pigeon-hole it all?
Does not the Spirit speak, and still?
O day, to us you give
such ample time to live.
*Above piece is a response to/turning of The Lien by Adelaide Love, which explores how life can become relinquished to the trivial (found in All the Silver Pennies by Blanche Jennings Thompson).
**From prompt: Contradict a chosen poem (chose The Lien by Adelaide Love), optionally incorporating phrases from the original. From Tresha Heafner’s Write Games class (The Poetry Salon), May 8, 2025.
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