(April 23, 2022, Orthodox Great and Holy Saturday, Last Day of Passover, and feast day of Saint George Great Martyr, Saint Alexandra the Empress (wife of Diocletian), Saint Marolus of Milan, Blessed Teresa Maria of the Cross, Blessed Helen del Cavalcanti, and the French Mercedarian Martyrs. Jewish calendar today celebrates Moshiach's Meal, Isaac Circumcised (1713 BC), and the Encirclement of Jericho. Image from here.)
River-smooth
The shell that snaps, our Lana tells
us, doesn't matter. “I hate edges’, she says,
shellacking the overlap in collage. But more to the point
examining a shell in dream, as proof. “My life”, she
explains, a thousand shards, glued together. When He
mends you seek in vain for one crack, one small spot
not river-smooth...
*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by Elizabeth Alexaner’s Ars Poetica #100: I Believe; from Lisa Freedman's Imagination and Justice BreatheReadWrite (International Women's Writing Guild), April 23, 2022.
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