Last month I participated in two challenges: Spark and Sunday Swaggers. Spark is an exchange between writer and artist led by Amy Souza. I partnered with Jone MacCulloch. I sent her a poem. She sent me this amazing photograph.
How Do We Stand?
I go to Lady Bird Johnson Grove
to be among these giant trees.Fenced forest of ten thousand branches
diffuses blue sky radiation
illuminating tunnels in the midstof roots ungrounded–a path
to the great unknown.Moved by stillness,
we pass ancient ruins,
an army of roots intertwined.
I’ll lock arms with youthrough dark spaces
Margaret Simon, all rights reserved
where rays of light
are swallowed
and breathe in blue forever.
Molly Hogan challenged our Sunday Swagger poetry group to write after Cheryl Dumesnil’s Today’s Sermon. I created a collage. Sometimes doing this helps me focus and inspires creative juices. After playing with collage and word collecting, I pulled together a poem using the anaphora of Today’s Poem.
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Reflections on the Teche 