Tag: ritual poetry
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Author Notes
“Author Notes” emerged from a refusal of wanting to answer the the question game—If you were an animal, which would you be? It demands a transformation I do not want to indulge in. It neglects experience and demands transformation. Instead I indulged with the possibilities of Harold’s Purple Crayon. I imagined writing it with my…
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Ten Prayer Requests Folded Like Love Notes
This poem began as a private act of grief and ritual—a way to place prayers where no one would find them but God. I wrote it in a shaky, illegible hand, not for clarity but for sincerity. The poem explores themes of sacred concealment, ethical restraint, and the refusal of spectacle. It’s a gesture of…
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I’ve been thinking lately-
This poem emerged from a long season of physical suffering and spiritual reckoning. I wanted to write not about Christ as symbol, but as body—torn, witnessed, and echoed in the gestures of ordinary life. The hawk, the scar, the breath—all became sites of ritual and recognition. I’m interested in how the sacred survives in silence,…