Poetry

After Rome

After feeling enveloped by saints who perched upon the colonnade of St. Peter’s square and were poised on pedestals under the basilica’s gleaming ceiling, as...

When Teeth Hurt

Last week my teeth fell out. One by one they crumpled into paper, dissolved into sand. I woke up and touched them, counting them. In Nicaragua they say that...

The Better Part

It seems we women must always choose between dreaming and cleaning up. Hear our visitor chide me, gently, but praise my sister, who’s rapt at whatever he says...

Whom do you seek?

All they could was dance, Dance to the joy of their savior risen. Let him dance with us, they implored, After plague and death destroyed their lives And even...

Annunciation

A swooping hawk, Gabriel descends to a barren, unexpectant earth, his feathers a train of candles settled into a prolonged burn. Mary receives him, a haloed...

Holy Thursday Pilgrimages

We never made it to the seven churches on those freezing Holy Thursday nights. Spring may have sprouted on the calendar but not tonight. This was no pilgrimage...