Stick, stuck

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

The tree, twisted painfully
as though caught turning
trying to pluck her own fruit,
throwing out her trunk, hunched
and laboured, reminds me of my mother,
pained by my petulant face:
“If the wind changes,” she’d say,
“you’ll be stuck that way.”

About Rosalind C Hughes

Rosalind C Hughes is a priest and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. She serves an Episcopal church just outside Cleveland. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.
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