[Critique Group 1] Sally's August submission, 11 lines

[sanford.rosenthal at comcast.net]

                                           ANOTHER KIND OF PRAYER

 

This morning, with my husband dead four years,  

no words of prayerful thanks come.

the daily gratitudes stick in my throat,

lodged between a bout of grief and unexpected anger. 

Normally nourishing silence offers no repast,

and the day ahead echoes with emptiness.

"Take all of this!" I barter defiantly

with a deity I hope still listens

to another kind of prayer.

 
By Sally Rosenthal 

 

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