I.
no vaccine for this condition
ever present sucks out life
soul erases biographies
one knee
8 minutes, 46 seconds
Momma, I love you
II.
lifeless daughters, sons of God
our grief anger
guilt emptiness
ache
to resurrect
to re-breathe you
Joanne Kennedy Frazer is a retired peace and justice director and educator for faith-based organizations at state, diocesan and national levels. Her work has appeared in several Old Mountain Press anthologies, Poetic Portions anthology, Soul-lit Spiritual Poetry, Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine, Panoply Literary Zine, Snapdragon Journal, Whirlwind Magazine, Kakalak, Red Clay Review and Gyroscope Review. Five poems were turned into a song cycle, Resistance, by composer Steven Luksan, and performed in Seattle and Durham. Her chapbook Being Kin (CreationRising Press) was published in 2019. She lives in Durham, NC.