Writing the annual report
like teaching a child to draw
perspective, moulding
a year into blocks,
trying to keep to scale but death
is slippery and shows
between the lines;
grief will not hold its shape.
Joy alone stays
along straight and narrow rays.
Follow them back to find
pinpricks of light that,
rebellious, refuse to be hidden,
overwritten by time’s other creatures.
About Rosalind C Hughes
Rosalind C Hughes is an Episcopal priest, poet, 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. 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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