a Golden Shovel poem based on a line from Wendell Berry’s “Sabbaths 2005 I”
by Joanne Kennedy Frazer
distressed appalled by all this
i set alight the Christmas Candle
illumine my soul against
darkness of hatred of evil that the
culture carries in the wind
Joanne Kennedy Frazer is a retired peace and justice director and educator for faith-based organizations. She began writing in her early 70s, and has now been published more than 80 times in anthologies, on-line zines, and magazines. Five poems have been turned into a song cycle titled Resistance by composer Steven Luksan and performed in Seattle and Durham. Her latest chapbook Seasonings (Kelsay Books) was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She lives in Raleigh, NC.
