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Sarah Rossiter
Sarah Rossiter is a writer and spiritual director in Concord, Massachusetts.
On spending the morning filling my fountain pen
Of course it doesn’t take all morning
but it could, sitting by the river, hoping
to capture the day on paper as the cartridge
draws slowly, and water sings, and trees...
May 12, 2022
Vernal pool
Here nothing moves, the water
waiting, still as glass, amid
the cattails’ silent stalks while
over there across the sea,
fire shreds the sky, exploding as...
April 6, 2022
White pelicans
One early spring in Illinois,
startled by the foreign sight
of pelicans upon dark water,
we stopped to stare, my mother
and I, at such ungainly awkward...
March 9, 2022
Feather on the breath of God
“The feather flew, not because of anything
in itself but because the air bore it along.”
—Hildegard of Bingen...
January 12, 2022
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The wren’s lament
Who knows why the fledglings died—
slowly—lingering even now in the nest
built in the clothespin bag hanging from
a nail on the porch while the frantic...
March 24, 2021
Baptismal prayer
This is the season when trees
Stand naked, stamped in sharp
Shadow on still-green grass.
This is the time between living
And dying....
October 19, 2020