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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

ROSE HAMID: WOMAN OF SALAM

by Sister Lou Ella Hickman





she stood    wearing her clothes of peace
she stood     quietly like hope
a single bush
surrounded
by a briar meadow of fear


Sister Lou Ella Hickman is a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament. She has been a teacher on all levels and she has worked in two libraries. Presently she is a freelance writer as well as a spiritual director. Her poems and articles have been published in numerous magazines as well as in After Shocks: Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events edited by Tom Lombardo and Down to the Dark River edited by Philp Kolin.  Her first book of poetry, she: robed and wordless, published by Press 53, was released September 1, 2015.