Wednesday, January 8, 2025

When Returning (JM)

 



(Joseph MacRae,  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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