Sirens

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

Time was when the siren 
was a singer of sea mist; 
her music has hardened, 
staccato,
and her figure, smooth 
and long like steel; 
still, she kills, 
and from a distance 
the echo returns as a wail 
falling and rising 
like smoke foreshadowing 
the ashes of the dead

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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