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Rachel Ann Russell
Rachel Ann Russell is studying at Wesley Theological Seminary.
Name us Ramah
I can’t write this poem
I can’t take my fear of what hasn’t happened
And name it....
November 18, 2022
That day at the Jordan
It was a one-man show, that wild man dunking each
man, woman, and child into the river with a blessing,
which by the time it was our turn
was brown with mud...
October 11, 2021
Broken beauty
That day gold inside me creating new eyes
amazed by the beauty of red tulips,
the skin of a baby, that stranger’s work
boots creased with glorious effort...
October 1, 2020
Second birth
In the quiet of the stone tomb,
Knitting himself back together
Eyes, hands, heart, lungs
Was healing like a nap?
Did it hurt? To come from...
April 3, 2019
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