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Sarah Rossiter
Sarah Rossiter is a writer and spiritual director in Concord, Massachusetts.
To Feed the Birds
each morning, break the ice in the stone birdbath, water essential as suet in this timeof drought—earth cracks, brush ...
The Other Side
The river wild, current fierce against my legs, feet unsteady, I watch fish rising on the other ...
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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...
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...
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...