[Critique Group 1] Leonard's comments on Salley's sub

[leonard tuchyner]

This piece is very real.

If prayer is talking to God,

then he has to hear the good and the bad.

You are just saying what is on your heart and mind at that moment in time.

It is a  heart  wrenching piece that  comes straight from the heart.

Thank you for sharing it.



Salley sub for August 23


                                           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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