((Joseph MacRae, published in Legacy lines: Poems inspired by LGBTQI+ Poets of the Past, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, April, 2025. Prompt from January 8, 2025, (above) afterfeast of Theophany, Synaxis of the Theotokos old calendar. Image from here.)
When Returning
(from city’s chaos, speed),
I stop on Mary’s Peak wayside.
Shut off the engine
and radio.
Roll down the window.
Smell the mountain air.
I absorb the green forest —
She fights for survival
like us all.
*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by “A Litany for Survival” by Audre Lorde, and highlighted words from it. From Daisy Barrett Nash’s Legacy Lines series, January 8, 2025
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