Category Archives: poetry

Holy Cross Day

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

A little sandpaper and stain, you would never tell the blood within the grain, but the wood knows where it’s been. Continue reading →

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By halves

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

My mother’s mantra haunts me: Never do things by halves; Continue reading →

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Heron

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Heron: hunched, gray, no plumage to waste on a kingfisher display; patient as a vulture, impassive as a judge, dangling the business end of its beak like a sword until an itch hits its wing-pit; it contorts it like a silly … Continue reading →

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Falling star

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

The sun does not set; it becomes moot. The security light clicks on instead, sensing danger as water falls like silver, holds its form uncontained I do not expect anyone at prayer on a night such as this but something … Continue reading →

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Swimming in prayer

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

though the womb of God is wide
I will not drown Continue reading →

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Why pray

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

How can we turn away, when love pursues us
with such glorious desire? Continue reading →

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Fraction

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

The crack of the communion host like a whip, like bone, like the click of handcuffs; how far we have roamed from the upper room: warm bread softly torn, love-fuelled bodies, blood fired by passion’s wine. You come to us … Continue reading →

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Spring fever

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Riptide currents race through green fields revealing their true colours, wrecking sirens’ songs, drowning desire with their own unfettered appetites; they stain the earth with lively riot, catching into their whirling dance flotsam and jetsam, driftwood that passes this way, … Continue reading →

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Eleison

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Christ, have mercy, we expostulate once more. Continue reading →

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The prayer of a lost Leviathan

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

My Creator, when you made sea monsters for sport, why would you not make me buoyant, flattening the waves, smoothing surfaces, resting zen-like on the moon’s reflection, bathed beautiful by her silver light; why not fiercely playful, breaking unexpectedly, tossing … Continue reading →

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