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Friday, July 24, 2020

DOMESTIC

by Sister Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S.







                                    love
                                                                    unsolved
                                                  elixir    
                                                                   blind
                                                  feverish
                                                                   imploring
                                                    traveled-stained
                                                                  stained traveled
                                   paralyzed          inability
                                            o
                                monstrous      joy
                                                                   that
                                                                   kills


Sister Lou Ella is a former teacher and librarian. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines such as America, First Things, Emmanuel, Third Wednesday, and TheNewVerse.News as well as in four anthologies: The Night’s Magician: Poems about the Moon, edited by Philip Kolin and Sue Brannan Walker, Down to the Dark River edited by Philip Kolin, Secrets edited by Sue Brannan Walker, and After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events edited by Tom Lombardo. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017. Her first book of poetry entitled she: robed and wordless was published in 2015. (Press 53.)